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Personal Identity in Moral and Legal Reasoning

Personal Identity in Moral and Legal Reasoning

Geller, Jeffery
Prust, Richard

Hardcover

Series: Philosophy of Personalism

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1622736281
ISBN13: 9781622736287
Publisher: Vernon Pr
Published: May 7 2019
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Many questions about moral and legal judgments hinge on how we understand the identity of the agents. The intractability of many of these questions stems, this book argues, from ignoring how we actually connect actions with agents.

When making everyday judgments about the morality or legality of actions, we do not use Aristotelian logic but what is termed character logic. The difference is crucial because implicit in character logic is an understanding of personal identity that is both coherent and intuitively familiar. A person, as we conceptualize him in moral and legal contexts, is a character of resolve. By unpacking what it means to be a character of resolve, this book reveals what underwrites our most fundamental beliefs about a person's rights and responsibilities. It also provides a new and useful perspective on a variety of issues about rights and responsibilities that perennially occupy philosophers. This book discusses the following:

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