Marcus Knaup

Harald Seubert

Die Beiträge machen das systematische und ideengeschichtliche Profil in Steins Denken transparent und zeigen die immer wieder überraschende Aktualität ihres phänomenologischen Ansatzes, der bis in Grundfragen der Anthropologie und Bioethik auch heute fruchtbar gemacht werden kann. Der Band zeigt Stein als eine Denkerin, die auf Grund der Weite des Horizonts, in dem sie denkt, in kein Raster passt.

Grundbegriffe und -phänomene Edith Steins

The relationship between our living body and our soul, our mental expressions of life and our physical environment, are both classical topics for discussion and ones which currently present themselves as part of a truly exciting philosophical debate: are we today still able to speak of a “soul”? And what is meant by a (living) body (German: “Leib”)? Does our brain dictate what we will and do? Or do we have free will? Why are we the same people tomorrow that we were yesterday? Given the discoveries of the modern neural sciences, can human beings still be understood in the context of the unity of body and soul? Or should we rather define ourselves as mind-brain beings (German: Gehirn-Geist-Gestalten)? Marcus Knaup explores these questions and discusses the most relevant approaches and arguments concerning the (living) body-soul debate. His own approach to current chal-lenges presented by modern brain research emanates from his bringing together Aristotelian Hylomorphism and phenomenology of the living body (German: “Leibphänomenologie”).

Marcus Knaup

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