Personal Identity and Applied Ethics : a Historical and Philosophical Introduction.
"'Soul', 'self', 'substance' and 'person' are just four of the terms often used to describe the human person. Cutting across metaphysics, ethics and religion the nature of personal identity and the self is a fundamental and long-standing puzzle in philoso...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Taylor and Francis,
2017.
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Edición: | First edition. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: personal identity, personal ontology, and ethics
- 1 The simple-soul approach and dualisms
- 2 Buddhist no-self approach and nihilism
- 3 Relational approach and Confucian role-person
- 4 Locke and the psychological approach
- 5 The physical approach and animalism
- 6 Practical and narrative approaches
- 7 What matters in survival and life-extending technologies
- 8 The beginning and the end
- Glossary