Ailments of the Soul

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25210%2F24%3A39922366" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25210/24:39922366 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/new-blackfriars/article/ailments-of-the-soul/CF8CA194097AFE7F18E5264451777BCC" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/new-blackfriars/article/ailments-of-the-soul/CF8CA194097AFE7F18E5264451777BCC</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/nbf.2024.17" target="_blank" >10.1017/nbf.2024.17</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ailments of the Soul

Original language description

The paper aims to trace the distinctive character of the talk of the soul and to disentangle it from the talk of the mind. The key context will be the way in which we talk about souls that are ailing. As a point of departure, I use the later Wittgenstein&apos;s notion of the soul as anti-dualist and anti-substantive, which brings it close to Dennett&apos;s or Davidson&apos;s philosophy of mind, but which Wittgensteinian ethicists have elaborated upon as concerned with matters of good and evil, and beauty. In relation to these concerns, the sense of the ailing soul is different from issues relating to mental health. I then discuss cases of ailments of the soul that would be misleading to analyse as matters of mental health (issues): addiction, racism, and environmental grief. I conclude with a plea for maintaining the talk of the soul as helpful for making sense of existential or beauty- or morality-related ailments, yet as something that does not necessarily subscribe to any doctrine of the soul as a substance. In support, I also use arguments from the spheres of eco-theology and public theology.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA22-15446S" target="_blank" >GA22-15446S: "ECEGADMAT". Varieties of Feeling Bad about Climate and Other Things</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

New Blackfriars

ISSN

0028-4289

e-ISSN

1741-2005

Volume of the periodical

105

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

428-444

UT code for WoS article

001193186600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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