
Can We Create Ourselves?
“Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body”
By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P.
1985
Part III: A Radical Process Interpretation of Science
Chapter 7: Primary Units in Process
i: The Meaning of the Evolutionary Process
1) The Variety of Evolutionary Processes
2) Evolution and Causality
ii: False Clues (00:26:12)
1) Reductionism
2) Process Philosophies
3) Clearing Away the Nonsense
iii: Primary Unites (01:00:28)
1) Empirical Being
2) The Natural Unit
3) Units in Process
4) Kinds of Process
Chapter 8: Process and Creativity (02:22:10)
i: Natural Processes
1) Categories and Causes
2) Too Many Categories?
ii: Transcendent Process: Body and Mind (02:59:26)
1) Interiority and Transcendence
2) Human Creativity
3) The Mind-Body Problem
4) Bodily Beauty
5) A Radical Process Philosophy
Chapter 9: Historicity and the Human Body (04:39:54)
i: Two Conceptions of Human Historicity
1) Humanism and Historicity
2) Christianity and Historicity
ii: Cultural Relativism (05:19:38)
1) Nature, Nurture and History as a Science
2) Morality and Cultural Relativism
iii: The Bible, Human Historicity and Ethics (06:23:20)
1) Adam and Biblical Anthropology
2) Natural Law and Christology