Bibliographical resources for PHIL 305: Philosophy of the Human Person (Redeemer Pacific College)
Compiled by Dr. Christopher S. Morrissey
"Phenomenology can help restore the understanding of being and mind that was accepted in classical Greek philosophy and medieval thought and can still take into account certain contributions of modernity, especially those of science. Phenomenology, in its classical form, understands the human mind as ordered towards truth, and this is the understanding of the mind that prevailed in classical thinking. Phenomenology develops this understanding through its doctrines of intentionality and evidence but with a consideration of modern problems.
"This revival of classical thinking is both desirable and important. In spite of the many advantages the modern age has brought us over the past 500 years, it has also contributed to a kind of undermining of our human self-understanding and a skepticism about our ability to know both ourselves and the world in which we live. I think phenomenology can provide an alternative to both the modern and the post-modern predicament because it provides a new understanding of mind as ordered towards truth." -- Robert Sokolowski (March 26, 1999)
3. Making
Distinctions
4. Explaining
5. Timing
6.
Measurement
7. Exact
Science and The World in Which We Live
8. Exorcising
Concepts
9. Referring
10. Grammar and Thinking
11. Tarskian Harmonies in Words and Pictures
12. Moral Thinking
13. What is Moral Action?
14. Knowing Natural Law
Robert Sokolowski, "The Science of Being as Being" [video] [PDF]
Robert Sokolowski, "The Human Person and Political Life", The Thomist 65 (2001): 505-27.
Robert Sokolowski, "What is Natural Law?", The Thomist 68 (2004): 507-29.
Robert Sokolowski, "God the Father: The Human Expression of the Holy Trinity", The Thomist 74 (2010): 33-56.
Msgr.
Robert Sokolowski: The Phenomenology of the Human Person
Drawing from his latest book, Msgr. Sokolowski discusses such concepts as the
human being as an "agent of truth," syntax vs. "proto-language,"
public conversation vs. internal reasoning, and the "declarative"
vs. the "informational" use of the word "I."
Schall reviews The God of Faith and Reason
Koterski reviews Ethics and Theological Disclosures: The Thought of Robert Sokolowski
"Within biblical religion, a distinction must be made between the Old and the New Testament. Leo Strauss has frequently observed that revealed religion and philosophy, Jerusalem and Athens, cannot be reconciled and that the tension between the two makes up the motive force for European history ... Strauss's observation may hold for the Old Testament, but it need not hold for the New; the Incarnation shows that all human powers, including reason, can be reconciled with Christian belief. Scholasticism, the use of reason within revelation, is not an intellectual abnormality but a human and metaphysical possibility in the New Law." -- Robert Sokolowski, Eucharistic Presence, p.134 n.21
Robert Sokolowski on Martin Heidegger, in First Things (January 1999).
Martin Heidegger: Phenomenology for the Godforsaken
Gustav Siewerth: Inspired Metaphysics? Gustav Siewerth's Hermeneutic Reading of the Onto-Theological Tradition