Are There Immaterial Souls? Part 1 Corporealism Materialism Physicalism

Описание: In this video, the first installment of a planned, three-part series on the soul, we survey varieties of philosophical materialism, from Stoicism and Aristotelianism thru the "Christian Materialism" of Bishop N. T. Wright, Notre Dame Emeritus Professor Peter van Inwagen, and the "Brethren" church's Nancey Murphy -- and much else in between.

00:01 Introduction to 3-Part Series
01:17 Introduction to Part 1
01:45 Overview: From Materialistic Monism, thru Dualism, to Idealist Monism
05:45 View 1: Eliminative Physicalism
14:08 View 2: Epiphenomenalism
19:22 View 3: Emergentism
22:44 Materialism and Religion
23:40 Tertullian's Corporealism
25:00 A. N. Whitehead, Teilhard de Chardin, Terence McKenna, and Rupert Sheldrake
27:00 Henri Bergson
27:45 H. P. Blavatsky
28:52 Finalism
29:21: Double-Aspect Theories
30:27 Pantheism
32:52 Renaissance Aristotelianism (Pietro Pomponazzi)
34:00 Pierre Gassendi and Rene Descartes
34:55 Leibnizian Monads
37:11 Spinozism
40:55 Uriel Da'Costa and Juan de Prado
41:40 Goethe, F. D. Maurice, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Albert Einstein
42:42 Thomas Hobbes
43:57 Nicolas Malebranche, R.-J. de Tournamine, and Claude Buffier
44:41 The Englightenment
45:18 Deism
47:00 Priestley's deterministic-materialistic Christianity
47:30 Immanuel Kant
48:30 Reactions to the Enlightenment: The First and Second Great Awakenings
49:39 Naturalism, Agnosticism, and Atheism
52:10 Science Popularizers (Bill Nye, Carl Sagan, Neil Degrasse Tyson) and the "Four Horsemen" of the "New Atheism" (Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitches, and Sam Harris)
53:00 Philosophical atheist criticisms of the "New Atheism" (Michael Ruse and Graham Oppy)
55:50 The Christian Materialism of Bishop N. T. Wright, Peter Van Inwagen, and Nancey Murphy
59:56 Outro and teaser for Parts 2 and 3

Along the way, we discuss ancient Stoic "Corporealism" as well as contemporary Physicalism, and distinguish both from modern (i.e., Enlightenment-era) materialism.

We canvass Stoicism's double-aspect theory and conception of Logos; Aristotle's three levels or types of soul: vegetative, animal, and rational; the Renaissance-era dispute between Alexandrists, Averroists, and Thomists over whether Aristotle supported individual immortality; Continental Rationalism's connexion to Hermeticism -- via Gottfried Leibniz's 'Monadology'; the eery similarities between Giordano Bruno and Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza; the difference between Pantheism and Panentheism; the difficulty of distinguishing atheism from Spinozism and Hobbesianism (of Thomas Hobbes); Enlightenment attempts to unite materialism and Christianity; Deism; the views of Immanuel Kant; reactions to the Enlightment (including the First and Second Great Awakenings; Romanticism and Transcendentalism; and Agnostic Naturalism) the so-called "New Atheism" of people like Richard Dawkins, Danniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris; and more!

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