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  title info:
    title: What is a person?
    sub title: untapped insights from Africa
  name:
    name part: Jecker, Nancy Ann Silbergeld
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Atuire, Caesar A.
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 329 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Stepping back from the above analysis, it is helpful to ask whether the shift to a more individualistic conception of persons carries traction for those who do not share its religious underpinnings. Judeo-Christian personhood was grounded on the idea that all and only human beings are made in the image of God (imago dei), for contemporary secular philosophers, there seems to be no corollary justification for claiming that all and only human beings qualify as persons. Some contemporary Christians, such as Noonan, have sought to defend an exclusive moral status for human beings by arguing that possessing the human genetic code affords the secular underpinnings for such a position. Yet, this proposal was eventually rebuffed as 'speciesist.' 'Speciesism,' a term coined in the 1970s by Ryder and popularized by Singer, is the position that assigning moral standing on the basis of species membership is morally arbitrary.
  note: Nancy S. Jecker and Caesar A. Atuire.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Persons
  subject:
    topic: Speciesism
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, African
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Comparative
  classification: BD450 .J37 2025
  classification: 179/.3
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Philosophy across borders
  identifier: 9780197690925
  identifier: 0197690920
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  identifier: 9780197690956
  identifier: 2024044349
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 241021
    record change date: 20260710195405.3
    record identifier: in00005641931