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What is a human? : what the answers mean for human rights /

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The debate over what makes human beings unique has raged for hundreds of years, and many believe it is urgent to convince others to accept their particular definition of what it is to be human. Despite these dire warnings, nobody has empirically examined whether particular definitions of a human act...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Evans, John Hyde, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Human rights > Anthropological aspects.
Political anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
PHILOSOPHY / Social.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Anthropologies and Human Rights in the Academic Debate
  • 3. The General Public, Academic Anthropologies, and Human Rights
  • 4. The Public's Biological Anthropologies: DNA and Analogies to Existing Humans
  • 5. The Public's Philosophical Anthropologies: Autonomous and Social Traits
  • 6. The Public's Theological Anthropologies: The Image of God and the Soul
  • 7. The Public's Socially Conferred Anthropology: Humans Making Humans Human
  • 8. Conclusion: Reassessing the Academic Debate about Anthropologies
  • Appendix A. Formal Statistical Analyses of the Survey Data
  • Appendix B. Public Opinion Survey
  • Appendix C In-depth Interviews.