Persons

The Difference between `Someone' and `Something'

AvRobert Spaemann

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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An examination and defence of the concept of personality, long central to Western moral culture but now increasingly under attack, by a leading European philosopher. Persons takes issue with major contemporary philosophers, especially in the English-speaking world (such as Parfit and Singer), who have contributed to the eclipse of the idea, and traces the debate back to the foundations of modern philosophy in Descartes and Locke. Robert Spaemann offers extended discussions of the sources of the idea in Christian theology and its development in Western philosophy. He also provides a number of pointed discussions of pressing practical questions--for example, our treatment of the severely disabled human and the moral status of intelligent non-human animals. The book covers a great deal of ground before coming to a focused conclusion: all human beings are persons.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-06-29
Mått:137 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt:334 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198808480
Översättare:Oliver O'Donovan

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Robert Spaemann is Emeritus Professor at the University of Munich and Honorary Professor of the University of Salzburg. His research focuses on Christian ethics with particular attention to bioethics, ecology, and human rights.Oliver O'Donovan is Professor Emeritus of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at the University of Edinburgh. He is the Series Editor of the Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics series and a past President of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics. His publications include The Desire of the Nations (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Common Objects of Love (Eerdmans, 2002), and The Ways of Judgment (2005).

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Spaemann provides substantive analysis about what persons are by distinguishing what persons do from what nonpersons do. But this is no mere case of positing-in good Sartrean fashion-that human existence precedes essence. No, this is a sophisticated investigation into what makes persons unique among all other existing entities through a focus on those activities, primarily of the mind, that enable one to understand human beings as persons.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction 1: Why we Speak of Persons 2: Why we call Persons `Persons' 3: How we Identify Persons 4: The Negative 5: Intentionality 6: Transcendence 7: Fiction 8: Religion 9: Time 10: Death and the Future Perfect Tense 11: Independence of Context 12: Subjects 13: Souls 14: Conscience 15: Recognition 16: Freedom 17: Promise and Forgiveness 18: Are All Human Beings Persons?