What is a person? : rethinking humanity, social life, and the moral good from the person up /

What is a person? : rethinking humanity, social life, and the moral good from the person up /

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Author / Creator:Smith, Christian, 1960-
Edition:Paperback edition.
Imprint:Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
©2010.
Description:x, 518 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Persons.
Philosophical anthropology.
Persons.
Philosophical anthropology.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11053215
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ISBN:9780226765945
0226765946
Notes:Originally published: 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • part 1. Initial Arguments
  • chapter 1. The Emergence of Personhood
  • chapter 2. Key Theoretical Resources
  • part 11. Critical Engagements
  • chapter 3. The Reality of Social Construction
  • Excursus: Getting to Truth
  • chapter 4. Network Structuralism's Missing Persons
  • chapter 5. Persons and Mechanisms (Not) in Variables Sociology
  • part III. Constructive Development
  • chapter 6. The Personal Sources of Social Structures
  • chapter 7. The Good
  • chapter 8. Human Dignity
  • Postscript
  • Index

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