Conatus: REVISED EDITION by Tom Wallace - HTML preview
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out on wider notions of connection and interbeing and of mind and body being fully reliant on their surrounding ecology and their manner of being in the world. Our exploration of the ‘Aristotelian soul’ brought these matters to the fore. Those ideas, whilst expressed as aspects of soul, were nonetheless elements of our understanding that could equally be derived from ‘emergence’ — Mind + Body + Way of being in the world. This adds up to more than just the sum of the parts. By the same token, perhaps eco-systems, the bio-sphere and larger agglomerations of matter have wider properties of which we are mostly unaware.
None of this needs to be mysterian, but at the same time, I don’t think it excludes faith.
Moving on in our investigations, we might ask: What is excluded from our views of morality — and beauty? The next sections will hopefully explain.
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