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Persons: The Difference Between `Someone' and `Something'

Oliver O'Donovan

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An examination and defense 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 ,
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.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: March 08, 2007

ISBN: 0199281815

ISBN 13: 9780199281817

Persons: The Difference Between `Someone' and `Something'

Oliver O'Donovan

4.6/5 ( ratings)

An examination and defense 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 ,
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.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: March 08, 2007

ISBN: 0199281815

ISBN 13: 9780199281817

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