Book contents
- What is a Person?
- What is a Person?
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Constructing the ‘Mainline Tradition’
- Part II No God, no Soul: What Person?
- Part III Toward Disabling the Person
- Part IV Persons Restored or Final Solution?
- Epilogue or Epitaph?
- Appendix The World of Rights Transformed Again
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2019
Book contents
- What is a Person?
- What is a Person?
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Constructing the ‘Mainline Tradition’
- Part II No God, no Soul: What Person?
- Part III Toward Disabling the Person
- Part IV Persons Restored or Final Solution?
- Epilogue or Epitaph?
- Appendix The World of Rights Transformed Again
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Despite the citation of Newman, this book will make no claims about the immortality of the soul or of the person. Its subject is far less theological, though overall not unreligious. What I want to try to answer is the more elementary question of whether the concept of ‘person’, as developed over time, adds anything (or should add anything) to our understanding of what it is to be human: a question which has to underlie Newman’s challenging statement.
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- What is a Person?Realities, Constructs, Illusions, pp. 1 - 10Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019