Subjectivity and Being Somebody

Download or read book Subjectivity and Being Somebody written by Grant Gillett and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses a neo-Aristotelian framework to examine human subjectivity as an embodied being. It examines the varieties of reductionism that affect philosophical writing about human origins and identity, and explores the nature of rational subjectivity as emergent from our neurobiological constitution. This allows a consideration of the effect of neurological interventions such as psychosurgery, neuroimplantation, and the promise of cyborgs on the image of the human. It then examines multiple personality disorder and its implications for narrative theories of the self, and explores the idea of human spirituality as an essential aspect of embodied human subjectivity.