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Persons: The Difference Between `Someone' and `Something'

Persons: The Difference Between `Someone' and `Something'

Spaemann, Robert
O'Donovan, Oliver

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics

Religion General General ChristianityGeneral Parenting

ISBN10: 0199281815
ISBN13: 9780199281817
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 8 2007
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.86 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
An examination and defense 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.

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