Body-self dualism in contemporary et...
George, Robert P.

 

  • Body-self dualism in contemporary ethics and politics[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 171/.2
    書名/作者: Body-self dualism in contemporary ethics and politics/ Patrick Lee, Robert P. George.
    作者: Lee, Patrick,
    其他作者: George, Robert P.
    出版者: Cambridge ; : Cambridge University Press,, 2008.
    面頁冊數: ix, 222 p.
    標題: Philosophical anthropology.
    標題: Ethics.
    ISBN: 9780521882484 (hardback)
    ISBN: 0521882486 (hardback)
    ISBN: 9780511509643
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: Human beings are animals -- Main challenges to establishing the first premise -- Animals are enduring agents -- Sensation is a bodily act -- In human being 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 twins and organic unity and distinctness -- Human beings are persons -- The difference in kind 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 nonintentional killing -- Euthanasia -- Human life and personhood near the end of life -- The human individual remains a person during his or her whole duration -- Why suicide and euthanasia are morally wrong - - Intentional killing vs. causing death as a side effect - - Human life is an intrinsic good -- The definition of death -- The criterion of death -- Human life and 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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