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Persons : the difference between 'someone' and 'something' / Robert Spaemann ; translated by Oliver O'Donovan.
Van Pelt Library BD450 .S65713 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spaemann, Robert.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in theological ethics
- Standardized Title:
- Personen. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Personalism.
- Christian ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- An examination and defence of the concept of personality, long central to Western moral culture but now increasingly under attack. Robert Spaemann tackles urgent practical questions, such as our treatment of the severely disabled human and the moral status of intelligent non-human animals.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199281815
- 9780199281817
- OCLC:
- 71238465
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