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