Meditation on a Prisoner: Towards Understanding Action and Mind

By Edward Pols and Professor Edward Pols

In this brilliant analysis of mind-body problems Edward Pols adds new dimen­sions to the discussion of basic issues.

The prisoner is Socrates, who, in a se­ries of actions involving moral decisions, finds himself under sentence of death, and who has now decided to undergo the sentence rather than accept the opportuni­ty to escape provided by powerful friends. Pols takes as his point of departure Socrates' na ve statement of the contrast be­tween a scientific analysis of a moral action and the point of view taken by the agent himself, and his rejection of the adequacy of the scientific analysis.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809306794
• ISBN13: 9780809306794
• Release Date: April 1975
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.0"