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oa Three Visions of Persons: Sacred, Secular, and Scientific
- Publisher: Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
- Source: QScience Proceedings, The Human Person: Challenges for Science, Religion and Governance. An international Symposium, Mar 2014, Volume 2014, 13
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Abstract
There are three perspectives on the nature of persons: Sacred, Secular, and Scientific. One idea is that these perspectives are fundamentally incompatible, inconsistent, incommensurable. Another is that these three perspectives can be reconciled. I explore the tension and explain how the ideas of a good human life, a morally excellent human life can be preserved even if the theories of evolution by natural selection and the view that the conscious mind is fully embodied are true.
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- 01 March 2014
- 01 March 2014