Charles Bonnet, Analytical Essay on the Faculties of the Soul

Charles Bonnet, Analytical Essay on the Faculties of the Soul
- ISBN 13:
9780192846778
- ISBN 10:
0192846779
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 04/06/2022
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Bonnet takes up a position that cuts across the standard understanding of the period as a clash between materialism and dualism. While his approach was rigorously naturalistic and physiological, this did not lead him to reject the notion of a soul. Instead, he argues that, in order to make sense of their sensory abilities, we need to attribute a soul to animals as well as human beings. At the same time, he argues that if personal immortality is to be possible, it can be conceived along the lines of insect metamorphosis, which shows how different biological forms can harbour a single identity.