Person, The: Readings in Human Nature
ISBN-10: 0-13-184811-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-184811-5
Published by Prentice Hall
© 2006
Pub. Date: Jul 18, 2005
Format: Paper
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Table of Contents
Topical Units for Constructing Syllabi vii
Preface xi
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1. Plato 1 |
| 1a. Phaedo 80c–84b 2 |
| 1b. Phaedrus 246a–b, 253c–256e 5 |
| 1c. Republic 439c–442b 8 |
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| 2. Aristotle 11 |
| On the Soul, ii.2, iii.4–5 12 |
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| 3. Cicero 17 |
| On Obligations I §§105–118 18 |
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| 4. Epictetus 22 |
| 4a. The Discourses i.2, i.29 23 |
| 4b. The Handbook §17, §37 29 |
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| 5. Clement of Alexandria 30 |
| Protrepticus 10.110.2.2 31 |
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| 6. Boethius 32 |
| Contra Eutychen §§2–4 33 |
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| 7. St Anselm 38 |
| The Incarnation of the Word, §§ 8-16 39 |
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| 8. St Thomas Aquinas 47 |
| Summa Theologica, 1st Part, QQ. 29–30♦ 48 |
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| 9. John Duns Scotus 61 |
| Ordinatio, I, d.26, q.un., excerpt♦ 62 |
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| 10. René Descartes 67 |
| Treatise on Man, excerpt 68 |
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| 11. Thomas Hobbes 76 |
| Leviathan, 1st part, Chapter 16 77 |
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| 12. John Locke 81 |
| An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ii.27 §§9–27 82 |
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| 13. J. O. de la Mettrie 91 |
| Man a Machine, excerpt 92
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| 14. G. W. Leibniz 97 |
| New Essays on the Human Understanding, excerpt 98 |
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| 15. David Hume 108 |
| A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part 4, §6 109 |
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| 16. Immanuel Kant 116 |
| 16a. Critique of Pure Reason, 3rd Paralogism of personality♦ 117 |
| 16b. Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, excerpt 119 |
| 16c. The Doctrine of Virtue, excerpts♦ 121 |
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| 17. Søren Kierkegaard 125 |
| The Sickness unto Death, excerpt 126 |
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| 18. Auguste Comte 135 |
| The Positive Philosophy, excerpt 136 |
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| 19. F. W. Nietzsche 142 |
| 19a. The Gay Science, §345 143 |
| 19b. Beyond Good and Evil, Part 1 §6, §§16–19, Part 2 §41, Part §3 54, Part §6 207 145 |
| 19c. The Will to Power, §886 150 |
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| 20. Simone Weil 152 |
| “Human Personality” 153 |
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| 21. Jean-Paul Sartre 168 |
| "Existentialism" 169 |
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22. P.F. Strawson 177 |
| Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics, excerpt 178 23. C. D. Broad 187 |
| “The Validity of Belief in a Personal God” 188 |
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| 24. Richard Taylor 199 |
| “The Anattá Doctrine and Personal Identity” 200 |
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| 25. H. G. Frankfurt 206 |
| “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person”♦ 207 |
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| 26. M. A. Warren 218 |
| “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion” 219 |
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| 27. Daniel Dennett 226 |
| “Conditions of Personhood” 227 |
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| 28. R. M. Smullyan 241 |
| “Is God a Taoist?” 242 |
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| 29. I. A. Menkiti 255 |
| “Person and Community in African Traditional Thought” 256 |
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| 30. P. A. French 263 |
| “The Corporation as a Moral Person”♦ 264 |
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| 31. Charles Taylor 275 |
| “The Concept of a Person” 276 |
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32. Roland Puccetti 288 |
| "The life of a Person" 289 33. Derek Parfit 299 |
| Reasons and Persons, excerpts♦ 300 |
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| 34. Mary Midgley 313 |
| “Persons and Non-Persons” 314 |
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| 35. Gary Legenhausen 321 |
| “Is God a Person?” 322 |
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| 36. A. O. Rorty 336 |
| “Persons and Personae” 337 |
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| 37. R. G. A. Dolby 351 |
| “The Possibility of Computers becoming Persons,” excerpts 352 |
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| 38. Troels Engberg-Pedersen 365 |
| “Stoic Philosophy and the Concept of the Person”♦ 366 |
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| 39. Oswald Hanfling 379 |
| “Machines as Persons?” excepts 380 |
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| 40. Raymond Martin 387 |
| “Was Spinoza a Person?” 388 |
| Response by Nicholas Rescher 393 |
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| 41. W. O. Stephens 396 |
| “Masks, Androids, and Primates: The Evolution of the Concept ‘Person’” 397 |
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| 42. The Boyd Group 409 |
| “The Moral Status of Non-human Primates: Are Apes Persons?” 410 |
