What is a person?
rethinking humanity, social life, and the moral good from the person up
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Author
Publication
2010 - The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
129,500 words, Guess
Page Count
518 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivewhatispersonreth00smit
- ISBN-100226765911
- ISBN-139780226765914
- Library of Congress Control Number2009041981
- OCLC Control Number456421198
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780226765914
- Open LibraryOL23929456M
Classifications
- DDC128
- LCCBD450 .S558 2010
- LCCBD450.S558 2010
Description
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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