John M. Rist (University of Toronto)

What Is a Person?

Realities, Constructs, Illusions

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores how the concept of person developed from both non-Christian and Christian sources and the ensuing impact of post-Christian culture. This book considers whether we have rights as persons, whether we 'matter', and how we have reached a position where we are not sure whether we do.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9781108478076
• ISBN-10: 1108478077
• Artikelnr.: 57575759

Autorenporträt

John Rist is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Toronto. Author of more than a dozen books and over a hundred articles on ancient philosophy, patristics, and ethics, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Aquinas Medalist of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Constructing the 'Mainline Tradition': 1. The first foundations: Plato and Aristotle
2. From Stoic individuals and personae to Christian persons
3. Mixtures: Plotinus, Porphyry, Nemesius
4. Augustine's personae: theology, metaphysics, history
5. The definition: Boethius and Richard of Saint Victor
6. Toward a synthesis: Thomas Aquinas
7. Between two worlds: Duns Scotus
Part II. No God, No Soul
What Person?: 8. Virtue, 'virtue', rights
9. Descartes on soul, self, mind, nature
10. Personal identity from Hobbes to Locke
11. After Locke
12. Sympathy or empathy: Richardson, Hume, Smith
13. Ambiguous Rousseau's soul and 'moi'
14. Kant's rational autonomy
Part III. Toward Disabling the Person: 15. Introducing the five ways
16. Assimilation and homogenization
17. The way of Prometheus
18. Whistling in the humanitarian wind
19. Virtual morality: propaganda as social glue
20. The way to an absolute nihilism
Part IV. Persons Restored or Final Solution?: 21. Parfit and Heidegger
22. Strawson and Nagel
23. Personalism, phenomenology, Edith Stein
24. God made Adam and Eve.