#8: What is the Soul, and Why Should We Care? (Part 2)

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”