
Thinking Christianly #8: What is the Soul, and Why Should We Care? (Part 2)
Nov 15, 2021
49:28
JP and Stan continue their conversation on the nature of the soul, the many implications of us being a soul, and objections to substance dualism.
In this podcast we discuss:
- Ethical decision making in light of substance dualism
- Why the soul is the only grounding for our intrinsic value
- The centrality of substance dualism to ethical issues at the beginning, during, and end of life
- Contemporary conversations around the question, “What are we?”
- Why the soul is needed to make the body valuable
- What happens when the body and soul are separated at death
- How horror genres often assume substance dualism
- Substance dualism and Darwinism
- Objections to substance dualism
Resources mentioned during our conversation:
- JP Moreland and Scott B. Rae, Body & Soul: Human Nature the Crisis in Ethics
- JP Moreland, The Recalcitrant Imago Dei: Human Persons and the Failure of Naturalism
- Thomas Nagel, Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
- Etienne Gilson, From Aristotle to Darwin and Back Again: A Journey in Final Causality, Species, and Evolution
- John W. Cooper, Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate
- Stan W. Wallace, “What Are We? The Three Answers Underlying Many Spiritual, Moral, and Political Disagreements”
