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Title: Persons: The Difference between `Someone’ and `Something’
Author: SPAEMANN ROBERT
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 13/07/2017
Imprint: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price: $44.95
Publishing status: Active
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.
Series: Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics
ISBN: 9780198808480
Weight: 334g
Dimension: 216mm X 137mm
Pages: 272