Exploring Personhood

Preface --A point of departure --Focus and methodology --Acknowledgments --Introduction : competing anthropological perspectives --Human nature and personhood --Toward a metaphysics of personhood --A general overview : content and approach --pt. 1.From Psyche to Antropos --1.In the beginning : defining some key issues --The transition from myth to reason --The Milesian response --Two metaphysical responses --The move toward reconciliation --The Pythagorean contribution --The anthropological significance of it all --2.Plato : the primacy of soul --The shift toward humanism --The Sophistic legacy --Enter Socrates --Socrates and Plato --The psychology of the Phaedo --The philosophical way of life --Arguments for the soul's immortality --The nature of soul and body --Two epiphenomenalist theories --Mind and causality --The forms as causes --Concluding myth --The broader anthropological dimension --The psychology of the Republic --3.Aristotle : the human composite --Aristotle's background and development --Theoretical knowledge and wisdom --The nature of wisdom and causality --Aristotle and Plato --Being and substance --Substance and change --Aristotle's psychology --Soul, body, and the separable intellect.