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Body-self dualism in contemporary ethics and politics / Patrick Lee, Robert P. George.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Patrick, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophical anthropology.
- Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 222 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Human beings are animals
- Main challenges to establishing the first premise
- Animals are enduring agents
- Sensation is a bodily act
- In human being the agent that performs the act of sensing is identical with the agent that performs the act of understanding
- An argument from the nature of human intelligence
- On privileged access and the modal argument for substance dualism
- Human and personal identity : the psychological continuity view
- Against constitutionalism
- Conjoined twins and organic unity and distinctness
- Human beings are persons
- The difference in kind between human beings and other animals
- Conceptual thought
- Free choice, moral agency
- Survival after death
- The human soul after death
- Resurrection of the body
- Personhood and human dignity
- Hedonism and hedonistic drug-taking
- What hedonism is
- Preliminary arguments against psychological and ethical hedonism
- An argument against hedonism from qualitative differences among pleasures
- Hedonism and dualism
- Pleasures are good only as aspects of real perfections
- Hedonistic drug-taking
- Abortion
- The biological issue : human embryos or fetuses are complete (though immature) human beings
- No person arguments : the dualist version
- No person arguments : the evaluative version
- The argument that abortion is justified as nonintentional killing
- Euthanasia
- Human life and personhood near the end of life
- The human individual remains a person during his or her whole duration
- Why suicide and euthanasia are morally wrong
- Intentional killing vs. causing death as a side effect
- Human life is an intrinsic good
- The definition of death
- The criterion of death
- Human life and dignity
- Sex and the body
- Sex and marriage
- Sex and pleasure
- Sex, love, and affection
- Sodomy
- Fornication
- Objections
- Non-marital sex acts, multiple partners, incest, bestiality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521882484
- 0521882486
- OCLC:
- 137244663
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