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Ailments of the Soul

Autoři: Beran Ondřej

Rok: 2024

Druh publikace: článek v odborném periodiku

Název zdroje: New Blackfriars

Název nakladatele: Wiley-Blackwell

Místo vydání: Hoboken

Strana od-do: 428-444

Tituly:

Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
cze	Strádání duše	Diskuse morální dimenze pojmu duše, nezávislé na tradičním kontextu dualistické antropologie.	duše; Wittgenstein; rasismus; závislost; environmentální žal
eng	Ailments of the Soul	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's notion of the soul as anti-dualist and anti-substantive, which brings it close to Dennett's or Davidson'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.	soul; Wittgenstein; racism; addiction; environmental grief