
Ep. 6: Dr. Patrick Lee: What Does it Really Mean to be a Human Being?
The Moral Imagination
I'm Not My Soul, Right?
I sometimes wonder that, that even people say who take religion very seriously. Like Aquinas says, I think I'm not my soul, right? Not simply. And so there is a sort of reductionist view where we think it's okay all the laws that govern behavior and reaction to human beings are all just physical laws. That's not going to work. The law is logic, you know, that they're not reducible to the laws of physics. And the moral laws aren't just reducible tothe laws of physics,. So which means that there are dimensions of us, or there's a whole dimension of us, that transcends matter, that can't get the physics and
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