RT Review
T1 REVIEW OF ROBERT SPAEMANN'S PERSONS
JF Journal of religious ethics
VO 38
IS 2
SP 373
OP 392
A1 Madigan, Arthur
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1822387027
AB This review presents the principal themes of Robert Spaemann's Persons: The Difference between ‘Someone’ and ‘Something.’ To be a person is not to be identical with one's teleological nature, but rather, to have that nature. Personal consciousness is necessarily temporal consciousness. Persons have a range of distinctively personal acts, such as recognizing and respecting one another, understanding their lives as wholes, making judgments of conscience, promising, and forgiving. All members of the human species, whatever their stage of development or limitations, are persons. The present review also briefly considers certain objections that have been raised against Spaemann's position.
K1 Robert Spaemann
K1 Teleology
K1 Responsibility
K1 Recognition
K1 Person
K1 Nature
K1 Love
K1 Freedom
K1 Conscience
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2010.00433.x