JP and Stan continue their conversation on the nature of the soul, the many implications of us being a soul, and objections to substance dualism.

In this podcast we discuss:

Ethical decision making in light of substance dualism

Why the soul is the only grounding for our intrinsic value

The centrality of substance dualism to ethical issues at the beginning, during, and end of life

Contemporary conversations around the question, “What are we?”

Why the soul is needed to make the body valuable

What happens when the body and soul are separated at death

How horror genres often assume substance dualism

Substance dualism and Darwinism

Objections to substance dualism

Resources mentioned during our conversation:

JP Moreland and Scott B. Rae, Body & Soul: Human Nature the Crisis in Ethics

JP Moreland, The Recalcitrant Imago Dei: Human Persons and the Failure of Naturalism

Thomas Nagel, Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False

Etienne Gilson, From Aristotle to Darwin and Back Again: A Journey in Final Causality, Species, and Evolution

John W. Cooper, Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate

Stan W. Wallace, “What Are We? The Three Answers Underlying Many Spiritual, Moral, and Political Disagreements”