
Persons : the difference between 'someone' and 'something'
Robert Spaemann
Bok · Engelsk · 2006
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Utgitt | Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2006
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Omfang | 255 s.
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Opplysninger | Why we speak of persons -- Why we call persons 'persons' -- How we identify persons -- The negative -- Intentionality -- Transcendence -- Fiction -- Religion -- Time -- Death and the future perfect tense -- Independence of Context -- Subjects -- Souls -- Conscience -- Recognition -- Freedom -- Promise and forgiveness -- Are all human beings persons?. - An examination and defence of the concept of personality, long central to Western moral culture but now increasingly under attack. Robert Spaemann tackles urgent practical questions, such as our treatment of the severely disabled human and the moral status of intelligent non-human animals.
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Emner | personalisme filosofisk antropologi kristen etikk
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ISBN | 9780199281817
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