Re: [asa] Corcoran article on the soul (a Christian materialist perspective)

Heya Murray,

At a glance, I have to admit I'm not impressed with Corcoran's article. He
seems to treat emergent dualism, thomism, and cartesian dualism (not a
complete list by a longshot) as all basically saying the same thing on the
grounds that they all make reference to a soul. To say that's an
oversimplification would be an understatement - it's flat out false. He then
spends the rest of the article responding entirely to a crude Cartesian
conception using some pretty weak reasoning, ultimately shored up by an
appeal that we'll all take social work and charity more seriously if we take
on his view of persons. (Christians didn't take such things seriously
before?)

That said, I agree that emphasis on bodily resurrection is tremendously
important.

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Murray Hogg <muzhogg@netspace.net.au>wrote:

> The following article by Calvin College professor, Kevin Corcoran, has been
> kicking around my archives for a while - I just stumbled across it by
> accident when looking for something else.
> It brings an interesting perspective to bear on the issues discussed in the
> mind/soul/body thread;
>
> http://tinyurl.com/c9ux6a
>
> Blessings,
> Murray
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Received on Wed Sep 23 19:09:05 2009