Volume 6, Number 12 · July 7, 1966
Large Questions
By Anthony Quinton
The Phenomenon of Life
by Hans Jonas
Harper & Row, 303 pp., $6.00
The Knower and the Known
by Marjorie Grene
Basic Books, 283 pp., $6.00
The Identity of Man
by J. Bronowski
Natural History Press, 107 pp., $3.95
Whether man is a part of nature or not is one of the largest and most persistent problems of philosophy, and unlike many philosophical problems it is a matter about which every moderately reflective person is likely to have an opinion. Most people, like most philosophers, are dualists, believing, with Descartes, that there are two distinct kinds of thing in the world that are wholly irreducible to each other; on the one hand subjects and acts of consciousness, infallibly known to introspection, and on the other spatially extended physical objects, including the human body, imparting motion to one another by impact.
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