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3.4 - Value, Dualism, and Materialism

from III - Engagements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2021

By
Charles Taliaferro
Edited by
Alexander J. B. Hampton  and
John Peter Kenney
Alexander J. B. Hampton
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
John Peter Kenney
Affiliation:
Saint Michael's College, Vermont
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Summary

After a brief overview of Christian Platonism in modern philosophy, the chapter has three sections. The first defends a Platonic account of value, in the second the primacy of consciousness is defended over and against physicalist accounts of mind that denigrate or eliminate consciousness, and in a third section objections are raised to Christian materialism, thus the chapter concludes with a defense of a more Platonic Christian account of the soul and body.

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physicalismconsciousnessvaluesEuthyphro dilemma
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Christian Platonism
A History
 , pp. 432 - 449
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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