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Toward a poetics, politics, and pedagogy of literary engagement, by deanne bogdan. Bodyself dualism in contemporary ethics and politics cambridge. Bodyself dualism in contemporary ethics and politics goodreads. George initiative in faith, ethics, and public policy. Let young americas foundation help you create your legacy and protect freedoms future. Lee and george vigorously challenge competing accounts in philosophy of mind and personal identity, and then employ their unified theory of human nature to confront contemporary treatments of reproduction, sexual ethics, and other matters of practical moral. Ethics, metaphysics, and politics in the work of germain. Editions of bodyself dualism in contemporary ethics and. He is coauthor of bodyself dualism in contemporary ethics and politics cambridge university press, 2008, embryo. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Robert peter george born july 10, 1955 is an american legal scholar, political philosopher.
Lee and george argue that human beings are physical, animal organisms albeit essentially rational and free. Bodyself dualism in contemporary ethics and politics by patrick lee, 9780521882484, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. What marriage is cambridge university press, 2014, embryo. The primary thesis of this work is that many views on sex, abortion, and euthanasia entail that a person is not identical to herhis body, a position the author. He has served on the executive boards of the american catholic philosophical association and the fellowship of catholic scholars. George this book treats the question of what a human person is and the ethical and political controversies of abortion, hedonism and drugtaking, euthanasia, and sex ethics. Buy a cheap copy of bodyself dualism in contemporary ethics. He is the author of three books, bodyself dualism in contemporary ethics and politics 2008, with robert p. And then they put the view to work in relation to several contemporary controversial moral issues. Human embryos and fetuses are human organisms because they too have the internal resources to develop themselves to the stage where they will be able to perform the actions characteristic of the human kind for support of this point, see chapter 4 of bodyself dualism in contemporary ethics and politics by patrick lee and robert p. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Doubleday, 2011, bodyself dualism in contemporary ethics and politics cambridge university press, 2008, and what is marriage. For two thousand years, christianity has existed in a tense, changing, sometimes fruitful, and sometimes explosive relationship with the political.
Gender, community, and postmodernism in contemporary ethics, by seyla benhabib. Profoundly important ethical and political controversies turn on the question of whether biological life is an essential aspect of a human person, or only an extrinsic instrument. At the heart of this philosophy is the view that humans persons are not deserving of moral respect in virtue of being whole, living, bodily human organisms, but in. Lee is the author of abortion and unborn human life 2010 and bodyself dualism in contemporary ethics and politics with robert p. A defense of human life 2008 and bodyself dualism in contemporary ethics and politics 2008. Bodyself dualism in contemporary ethics and politics. A defense of human life 2 nd edition, doubleday, 2011, bodyself dualism in contemporary ethics.
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