What is a person? : rethinking humanity, social life, and the moral good from the person up /

The task of understanding human beings, what we ourselves are, our constitution and condition, is a perennial problem in philosophy and related disciplines. Smith argues here that our understanding of human persons is threatened by technological development and capricious academic theories alike, se...

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Main Author:	Smith, Christian, 1960-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Persons. Philosophical anthropology.

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