Sobre a alma e a natureza humana

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Sobre a alma e a natureza humana

por Samuel de Paiva Pires, em 01.04.12

«I noted in a recent post that those beholden to scientism tend to reify abstractions -- to abstract the mathematical structure of a concrete physical system and treat it as if it were the entirety of the system, or to abstract the neurobiological processes underlying human action and treat them as if they were the whole source of human action. I also noted that while those prone to scientism are notorious for this, Cartesians are guilty of reifying abstractions too. Specifically, they abstract from the one substance that is a human being its intellectual aspect and its animal aspect and make of them two substances -- putting asunder, as it were, what God and nature had joined together. And when they finally recombine them, what they are left with is nothing human at all, but a bizarre shotgun marriage of angel and animal, or ghost and machine. But sometimes a man is just a man.»

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