Body-self dualism in contemporary ethics and politics /

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Main Author: Lee, Patrick, 1952-
Other Authors: George, Robert P
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008
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Table of Contents:
  • Human beings are animals
  • Main challenges to establishing the first premise
  • Animals are enduring agents
  • Sensation is a bodily act
  • In human being the agent that performs the act of sensing is identical with the agent that performs the act of understanding
  • An argument from the nature of human intelligence
  • On privileged access and the modal argument for substance dualism
  • Human and personal identity : the psychological continuity view
  • Against constitutionalism
  • Conjoined twins and organic unity and distinctness
  • Human beings are persons
  • The difference in kind between human beings and other animals
  • Conceptual thought
  • Free choice, moral agency
  • Survival after death
  • The human soul after death
  • Resurrection of the body
  • Personhood and human dignity
  • Hedonism and hedonistic drug-taking
  • What hedonism is
  • Preliminary arguments against psychological and ethical hedonism
  • An argument against hedonism from qualitative differences among pleasures
  • Hedonism and dualism
  • Pleasures are good only as aspects of real perfections
  • Hedonistic drug-taking
  • Abortion
  • The biological issue : human embryos or fetuses are complete (though immature) human beings
  • No person arguments : the dualist version
  • No person arguments : the evaluative version
  • The argument that abortion is justified as nonintentional killing
  • Euthanasia
  • Human life and personhood near the end of life
  • The human individual remains a person during his or her whole duration
  • Why suicide and euthanasia are morally wrong
  • Intentional killing vs. causing death as a side effect
  • Human life is an intrinsic good
  • The definition of death
  • The criterion of death
  • Human life and dignity
  • Sex and the body
  • Sex and marriage
  • Sex and pleasure
  • Sex, love, and affection
  • Sodomy
  • Fornication
  • Objections
  • Non-marital sex acts, multiple partners, incest, bestiality