J. C. Eccles: Facing Reality | Taschenbuch

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The titling of this book - "Facing Reality" - came to me unbidden, presumably from my subconscious! But, when it came, it seemed to be right, because that essentially is what I am trying to do in this book. " Facing" is to be understood in the sense of "looking at in a steadfast and unflinching manner". It thus contrasts with "Confronting" which has the sense of "looking at with hostility and defiance". As I face life with its joys and its sorrows, its successes and its failures, its peace and its turmoil, my attitude is one of serene acceptance and gratitude and not one of angry and arrogant confrontation and rejection. The other component of the title - "Reality" - is the ultimate reality for each of us as conscious beings - our birth - our self-hood in its long stream of becoming throughout our life - our death and apparent annihilation. This is the Reality that we each of us must face if we are to live and adventure as free and responsible beings and not as mere playthings of chance and circumstance, going through a mean ingless farce from birth to death with the search ever for distraction and self-forgetfulness. As a brain scientist I have specialist knowledge of that wonderful part of the body that is alone concerned in the whole Iife-Iong interplay between the conscious self and the extern al world, including other selves.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I Introduction: Man, Brain and Science.- II The Neuronal Machinery of the Brain.- III Synaptic Mechanisms Possibly Concerned in Learning and Memory.- IV The Experiencing Self.- V The Brain and the Unity of Conscious Experience.- VI Evolution and the Conscious Self.- VII The Understanding of Nature.- VIII Man, Freedom and Creativity.- IX The Necessity of Freedom for the Free Flowering of Science.- X The Brain and the Soul.- XI Education and the World of Objective Knowledge.- XII Epilogue.- References.

Details

Genre:	Philosophie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Heidelberg Science Library
Inhalt:	xi 210 S. 48 s/w Illustr.
ISBN-13:	9780387900148
ISBN-10:	0387900144
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Eccles, J. C.
Hersteller:	Springer New York Springer US, New York, N.Y. Heidelberg Science Library
Maße:	229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	J. C. Eccles
Gewicht:	0,332 kg

Artikel-ID: 107102303

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Details

Genre:	Philosophie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Heidelberg Science Library
Inhalt:	xi 210 S. 48 s/w Illustr.
ISBN-13:	9780387900148
ISBN-10:	0387900144
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Eccles, J. C.
Hersteller:	Springer New York Springer US, New York, N.Y. Heidelberg Science Library
Maße:	229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	J. C. Eccles
Gewicht:	0,332 kg