Download or read book Dimensions of Personhood written by Heikki Ikäheimo and published by Imprint Academic (Ips). This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original articles considers the question What are persons? The book aims first of all to clarify the nature of the query and its relation to associated questions such as the nature of the human animal, the persistence and unity of persons, and other philosophical conditions.
Download or read book Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood written by Simon J. Evnine and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Evnine examines various epistemic aspects of what it is to be a person. Persons are defined as finite beings that have beliefs, including second-order beliefs about their own and others' beliefs, and are agents, capable of making long-term plans. It is argued that for any being meeting these conditions, a number of epistemic consequences obtain. First, all such beings must have certain logical concepts and be able to use them in certain ways. Secondly, there are at least two principles governing belief that it is rational for persons to satisfy and are such that nothing can be a person at all unless it satisfies them to a large extent. These principles are that one believe the conjunction of one's beliefs and that one treat one's future beliefs as, by and large, better than one's current beliefs. Thirdly, persons both occupy epistemic points of view on the world and show up within those views. This makes it impossible for them to be completely objective about their own beliefs. Ideals of rationality that require such objectivity, while not necessarily wrong, are intrinsically problematic for persons. This 'aspectual dualism' is characteristic of treatments of persons in the Kantian tradition. In sum, these epistemic consequences support a traditional view of the nature of persons, one in opposition to much recent theorizing.
Download or read book Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood written by Simon J. Evnine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Evnine argues that all persons must share certain epistemic features. They must possess particular logical concepts and their beliefs must conform to certain principles of rationality. However, they cannot be completely objective about their own beliefs. These features deepen our understanding of what it is to be a person.
Download or read book Dimensions of Dignity written by D. Egonsson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is membership of our species important in itself, or is it just important to have the properties that a normal grown-up human being has? A value subjectivist may argue for a special human value proceeding from the assumption that most of us believe or sense that being human is something important per se and independently of, for instance, those properties that form the basis of personhood. This allows all human beings to have a share in this value. Other attempts to defend a principle of human dignity fail in this respect and are criticized in this book. The book is intended for philosophers with a general interest in moral philosophy or ethics, and more specifically axiological, animal and medical ethics.
Download or read book Philosophical Dimensions of Privacy written by Ferdinand David Schoeman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-11-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays makes readily accessible many of the most significant and influential discussions of privacy.
Download or read book Exploring Personhood written by Joseph Torchia and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the metaphysical underpinnings of theories of human nature, personhood, and the self. This book moves from the Pre-Socratics to Postmodernism, assessing what transpired during the intervening 2500 year period, with a focus on the contributions of the Aristotelian/Thomistic tradition of inquiry.
Download or read book The Many Dimensions of the Human Person written by E. Ecker Steger and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To delineate what it means to discover truth, to act in freedom, to be creative, to live authentically, and to aspire to transcend the time and space dimension is the intent of this book. The subject is treated thematically through the analysis of the opposites of materialism and immaterialism, whereas selected traditional and contemporary philosophical themes demonstrate the philosophical mean.
Download or read book Corporate Personhood written by Susanna Kim Ripken and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the nature of corporate personhood and how it affects the rights, powers, and influence of corporations in society.
Download or read book The Psychology of Personhood written by Jack Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new examination of the psychology of personhood, which views persons as irreducibly embodied and socially situated beings.
Download or read book Theory of Legal Personhood written by Visa A. J. Kurki and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Présentation de l'éditeur: "This work offers a new theory of what it means to be a legal person and suggests that it is best understood as a cluster property. The book explores the origins of legal personhood, the issues afflicting a traditional understanding of the concept, and the numerous debates surrounding the topic."
Download or read book African Personhood and Applied Ethics written by Molefe, Motsamai and published by NISC (Pty) Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-16 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, the salient idea of personhood in the tradition of African philosophy has been objected to on various grounds. Two such objections stand out – the book deals with a lot more. The first criticism is that the idea of personhood is patriarchal insofar as it elevates the status of men and marginalises women in society. The second criticism observes that the idea of personhood is characterised by speciesism. The essence of these concerns is that personhood fails to embody a robust moral-political view. African Personhood and Applied Ethics offers a philosophical explication of the ethics of personhood to give reasons why we should take it seriously as an African moral perspective that can contribute to global moral-political issues. The book points to the two facets that constitute the ethics of personhood – an account of (1) moral perfection and (2) dignity. It then draws on the under-explored view of dignity qua the capacity for sympathy inherent in the moral idea of personhood to offer a unified account of selected themes in applied ethics, specifically women, animal and development.
Download or read book Health Rights and Dignity written by Christian Erk and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that there is such a thing as a human right to health has become pervasive. It has not only been acknowledged by a variety of international law documents and thus entered the political realm but is also defended in academic circles. Yet, despite its prominence the human right to health remains something of a mystery - especially with respect to its philosophical underpinnings. Addressing this unfortunate and intellectually dangerous insufficiency, this book critically assesses the stipulation that health is a human right which - as international law holds - derives from the inherent dignity of the human person. Scrutinising the concepts underlying this stipulation (health, rights, dignity), it shall conclude that such right cannot be upheld from a philosophical perspective.
Download or read book The Selfhood of the Human Person written by John F. Crosby and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crosby unfolds the mystery of personal uniqueness, shedding new light on the unrepeatability of each human person.
Download or read book The Call to Personhood written by Alistair I. McFadyen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to answer the question 'What is a person?'. Although the answer is given in largely theoretical terms, the author is concerned primarily with practice: what does it mean to live as a human person in community with others? What personal, social, and political practices are required by personal being? The central insight, that human identity is most productively understood in communicational terms, leads to an account of personhood which is both compassionate and which - at the same time - keeps sight of the particularity of each individual.
Download or read book Personhood in Science Fiction written by Juli L. Gittinger and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the topic of personhood—who is a “person” or “human,” and what rights or dignities does that include—as it has been addressed through the lens of science fiction. Chapters include discussions of consciousness and the soul, artificial intelligence, dehumanization and othering, and free will. Classic and modern sci-fi texts are engaged, as well as film and television. This book argues that science fiction allows us to examine the profound question of personhood through its speculative and imaginative nature, highlighting issues that are already visible in our present world.
Download or read book Personhood Ethics and Animal Cognition written by Gary E. Varner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book also draws heavily on empirical research on consciousness and cognition in non-human animals as a way of approaching the question of which animals, if any, are "persons," or at least "near-persons".
Download or read book Personhood and Health Care written by David C. Thomasma and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PERSONHOOD AND HEALTH CARE This book arose as a result of a pre-conference devoted to the topic held June 28, 1999 in Paris, France. The pre-conference preceded the Annual Congress of the International Academy ofLaw and Mental Health. Other chapters were solicited after the conference in order to more completely explore the relation of personhood to health care. The pre conference was held in honor of Yves Pelicier who led so many of our French colleagues in medicine, philosophy, and ethics as Christian Herve notes in his Tribute. As health care is aimed at healing persons, it is important to realize how difficult it is to construct a theory of personhood for health care, and thus, a theory of how healing in health care comes about or ought to occur. The book is divided into four parts, Concepts of the Person, Theories of Personhood in Relation to Health Care and Bioethics, Person and Identity, and Personhood and Hs Relations. Each section explores a critical arena in constructing the relation of personhood to health care. Although no exploration ofthis nature can be exhaustive, every effort was made to present both conflicting and complementary views of personhood from within similar and different philosophical and religious traditions. PART ONE: CONCEPTS OF THE PERSON Tracing the origins of the concept of person from antiquity through present day, Jean Delemeau provides an historical sketch of the development of a wide range of meanings.
