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Metaphysical Dualism, Subjective Idealism, and Existential Loneliness - Matter and Mind

English · Hardback

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List of contents

Introduction 01. The Achilles of Rationalist Arguments: The Simplicity, Unity, and Identity of Thought and Soul from the Cambridge Platonists to Kant: A Study in the History of an Argument 02. Consciousness, Spontaneity, and Synthetic A Priori Relations 03. Kant and Schopenhauer on Reality 04. Kant and Hegel on the Quality-Quantity Distinction 05. The Science of Determinism and the Consciousness of Freedom 06. Descartes’s Bridge to the External World: The Piece of Wax 07. Locke and Leibniz on Personal Identity 08. Shaftesbury and Hume on Personal Identity 09. Hume on Space (and Time) 10. Kant’s Two Premises in the Transcendental Deductions 11. Brentano’s Theory of Intentionality 12. The Materialism of Science and the Philosophy of Consciousness 13. Loneliness: An Interdisciplinary Approach 14. Loneliness and the Dynamics of Narcissism 15. The Limits of Self-Knowledge 16. The Dynamics of Intimacy and Empathy

About the author

Ben Lazare Mijuskovic, PhD (Philosophy), MA (Literature), is a retired professor of philosophy and humanities at California State University at Dominguez Hills, Humanities Department. He is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and is a retired Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health therapist.

Summary

In this wide-ranging book, philosopher Ben Lazare Mijuskovic returns us to our rich philosophical past on the nature of consciousness, lived experience, and the pining for a meaningful existence that contemporary social science has displaced in its tendency toward material reduction.

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