Body-self dualism in contemporary ethics and politics
Human beings are animals -- Main challenges to establishing the first premise -- Animals are enduring agents -- Sensation is a bodily act -- The agent that performs the act of sensing is identical with the agent that performs the act of understanding -- An argument from the nature of human intellige...
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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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Cambridge [u.a.]
Cambridge Univ. Press
2008
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| In: | Year: 2008 |
| Reviews: | Body–Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics (2009) (Robinson, Brian J., 1983 -)
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| Edition: | 1. publ. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Philosophical anthropology
/ Bioethics
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| Further subjects: | B
Ethics
B Philosophical Anthropology |
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| Summary: | Human beings are animals -- Main challenges to establishing the first premise -- Animals are enduring agents -- Sensation is a bodily act -- The agent that performs the act of sensing is identical with the agent that performs the act of understanding -- An argument from the nature of human intelligence -- On privileged access and the modal argument for substance dualism -- Human and personal identity : the psychological continuity view against constitutionalism -- Conjoined and organic unity and distinctness -- Human beings are persons -- The difference between human beings and other animals -- Conceptual thought -- Free choice, moral agency -- Survival after death -- The human soul after death -- Resurrection of the body -- Personhood and human dignity -- Hedonism and hedonistic drug-taking -- What hedonism is -- Preliminary arguments against psychological and ethical hedonism -- An argument against hedonism from qualitative differences among -- Pleasures -- Hedonism and dualism -- Pleasures are good only as aspects of real perfections -- Hedonistic drug-taking -- Abortion -- The biological issue : human embryos or fetuses are complete (though -- Immature) human beings -- No person arguments : the dualist version -- No person arguments : the evaluative version -- The argument that abortion is justified as non-intentional killing -- Euthanasia -- Human life and personhood near the end of life -- Why suicide and euthanasia are morally wrong -- Intentional killing vs. causing death as a side effect -- Human life is an intrinsic good -- The human individual remains a person during his whole durations -- The definition of death -- The criterion of death -- Human life and human dignity -- Sex and the body -- Sex and marriage -- Sex and pleasure -- Sex, love, and affection -- Sodomy -- Fornication -- Objections -- Non-marital sex acts, multiple partners, incest, bestiality |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | IX, 222 S, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-88248-4 0-521-88248-6 |
