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What is a person?

rethinking humanity, social life, and the moral good from the person up

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An edition of What is a person? (2010)

What is a person?

rethinking humanity, social life, and the moral good from the person up

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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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The University of Chicago Press
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Persons, Philosophical anthropology

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Table of Contents

Initial arguments
The emergence of personhood
Key theoretical resources
Critical engagements
The reality of social construction
Excursus: getting to truth
Network structuralism's missing persons
Persons and mechanisms (not) in variables sociology
Constructive development
The personal sources of social structures
The good
Human dignity
Postscript.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chicago, London

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128
Library of Congress
BD450 .S558 2010, BD450.S558 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL23929456M
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whatispersonreth00smit
ISBN 10
0226765911
ISBN 13
9780226765914
LCCN
2009041981
OCLC/WorldCat
456421198

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