What is a person?: rethinking humanity, social life, and the moral good from the person up
The task of understanding human beings, what we ourselves are, our constitution and condition, is a perennial problem in philosophy and related disciplines. Smith argues here that our understanding of human persons is threatened by technological development and capricious academic theories alike, se...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]
University of Chicago Press
2010
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Reviews: | Christian Smith, What is a Person? Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 518 pp. ISBN: 0226765911. £ 26.00 (hbk.) (2013) (Kadlac, Adam)
What Is a Person? Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up (2011) (Baggett, Jerome P., 1963 -) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Person
/ Humanity (Motif)
B Philosophical anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Philosophical anthropology
B Persons B Philosophical Anthropology |
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| Summary: | The task of understanding human beings, what we ourselves are, our constitution and condition, is a perennial problem in philosophy and related disciplines. Smith argues here that our understanding of human persons is threatened by technological development and capricious academic theories alike, seeking to deny or relativize the personhood of humanity. Smith's book puts a stake in the ground, in defense of a view of the human that is genuinely humanistic in the traditional sense and capable of sustaining with intellectual coherence things like modern human rights and universal benevolence |
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| Item Description: | Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | X, 518 S., graph. Darst., 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0226765911 |