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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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Initial arguments
- The emergence of personhood
- Key theoretical resources
- Critical engagements
- The reality of social construction
- Excursus: getting to truth
- Network structuralism's missing persons
- Persons and mechanisms (not) in variables sociology
- Constructive development
- The personal sources of social structures
- The good
- Human dignity
- Postscript.