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What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up

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What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up - Smith, Christian
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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 ...

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What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up 2011, University of Chicago Press

ISBN-13: 9780226765945

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What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up 2010, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226765914

Hardcover