Emergent Monism and the Classical Doctrine of the Soul

Joseph A. Bracken; Joseph A. Bracken

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2004.00564.x

Abstract

Traditional Christian belief in the existence of human life after death within a transformed material universe should be capable of rational justification if one chooses carefully the philosophical scheme underlying those claims. One should not have to appeal simply to the power of a loving God to justify one's beliefs. A revision of Whitehead's metaphysical scheme is proposed that allows one to render these classical Christian beliefs at least plausible to a broad range of contemporary thinkers as a consequence of a cosmology based on the principle of universal intersubjectivity and the need for a common ground between opposing subjectivities.

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field, actual occasion, matter/spirit dichotomy, God‐world relationship, intersubjectivity, soul/body relation, (Whiteheadian) societies

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Bracken, J., (2004) “Emergent Monism and the Classical Doctrine of the Soul”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 39(1), 161–174. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2004.00564.x

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