Body-self dualism in contemporary ethics and politics
By: Patrick Lee, Robert P. George
Contributors: George, Robert P
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780521882484
Subjects: Philosophical anthropology; Ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Human beings are animals; title: Main challenges to establishing the first premise; title: Animals are enduring agents; title: Sensation is a bodily act; title: In human being the agent that performs the act of sensing is identical with the agent that performs the act of understanding; title: An argument from the nature of human intelligence; title: On privileged access and the modal argument for substance dualism; title: Human and personal identity : the psychological continuity view; title: Against constitutionalism; title: Conjoined twins and organic unity and distinctness; title: Human beings are persons; title: The difference in kind between human beings and other animals; title: Conceptual thought; title: Free choice, moral agency; title: Survival after death; title: The human soul after death; title: Resurrection of the body; title: Personhood and human dignity; title: Hedonism and hedonistic drug-taking; title: What hedonism is; title: Preliminary arguments against psychological and ethical hedonism; title: An argument against hedonism from qualitative differences among pleasures; title: Hedonism and dualism; title: Pleasures are good only as aspects of real perfections; title: Hedonistic drug-taking; title: Abortion; title: The biological issue : human embryos or fetuses are complete (though immature) human beings; title: No person arguments : the dualist version; title: No person arguments : the evaluative version; title: The argument that abortion is justified as nonintentional killing; title: Euthanasia; title: Human life and personhood near the end of life; title: The human individual remains a person during his or her whole duration; title: Why suicide and euthanasia are morally wrong; title: Intentional killing vs. causing death as a side effect; title: Human life is an intrinsic good; title: The definition of death; title: The criterion of death; title: Human life and dignity; title: Sex and the body; title: Sex and marriage; title: Sex and pleasure; title: Sex, love, and affection; title: Sodomy; title: Fornication; title: Objections; title: Non-marital sex acts, multiple partners, incest, bestiality