Phenomenology of the Human Person

Robert Sokolowski argues that being a person means to be involved with truth. He shows that human reason is established by syntactic composition in language, pictures, and actions and that we understand things when they are presented to us through syntax. Sokolowski highlights the role of the spoken word in human reason and examines the bodily and neurological basis for human experience. Drawing on Husserl and Aristotle, as well as Aquinas and Henry James, Sokolowski here employs phenomenology in a highly original way in order to clarify what we are as human agents.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Form of Thinking	p. 5
Two Ways of Saying "I"	p. 7
Further Kinds of Declaratives	p. 22
Linguistic Syntax and Human Reason	p. 31
The Person as the Agent of Syntax: Predication	p. 48
Reason as Public: Quotation	p. 68
Grammatical Signals and Veracity	p. 80
The Content of Thinking	p. 97
The Content of What Is Said: Essentials and Accidentals	p. 99
Properties and Accidents Reveal What Things Are	p. 117
Knowing Things in Their Absence: Pictures, Imagination, and Words	p. 136
Mental Representations	p. 157
What Is a Concept and How Do We Focus on It?	p. 177
The Body and Human Action	p. 191
The Body and the Brain	p. 193
Active Perception and Declaratives	p. 205
Mental Images and Lenses	p. 225
Forms of Wishing	p. 238
Declaring Our Wishes and Choices	p. 253
Ancients and Moderns	p. 271
Aristotle	p. 273
Thomas Aquinas	p. 286
Conclusion, with Henry James	p. 304
Bibliography	p. 325
Index	p. 333
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