| Description |
1 online resource (135 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; Foreword; The Setting; The Bridge; Persons And World; Summary And Some Prelude; Persons And Information; The What And The Who; Rationality; The Master Thought; Consciousness, Language and Information; The New Cogito; Why We Are Not Materialists; Why We Are Not Pragmatists; Why We Are Not Davidsonians; Empiricism And Information; A Conjecture On Personal Identity; Summary And More Prelude; Persons And Their Lives; The Categories Of A Life; The Categories of Agency; Persons And Politics; The Person In Politics; The Twinning Of Religion And Politics. |
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Things Persons Should Know How To Describe Their Way Out OfDiversity; Equal Opportunity; Elitism; Multiculturalism; Impartiality; Muzzling; A Secular Argument Against Abortion; The Last Best Test Of Democracy; The Information Market; Conceptual Hygiene: Why We Need Philosophy; Selected Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
This study argues for the essential link between objectivity and personhood. How personhood is understood dramatically affects social formations and how individuals are treated. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Agent (Philosophy)
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Agent (Philosophy) |
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Philosophy, Modern -- 21st century.
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Philosophy, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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2000 - 2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Campbell, P. G. (Peter G.), 1950-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Coval, S.C. A Critique of the Liberal Idea of a Person : The Contradiction within Equalitarian Ethical Theory. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2010 9780773413948 |
| ISBN |
9780773411586 (electronic book) |
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0773411585 (electronic book) |
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