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Persons - A History (Paperback)
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Persons - A History (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Philosophical Concepts
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What is a person? Why do we count certain beings as persons and
others not? How is the concept of a person distinct from the
concept of a human being, or from the concept of the self? When and
why did the concept of a person come into existence? What is the
relationship between moral personhood and metaphysical personhood?
How has their relationship changed over the last two millennia?
This volume presents a genealogy of the concept of a person. It
demonstrates how personhood-like the other central concepts of
philosophy, law, and everyday life-has gained its significance not
through definition but through the accretion of layers of meaning
over centuries. We can only fully understand the concept by knowing
its history. Essays show further how the concept of a person has
five main strands: persons are particulars, roles, entities with
special moral significance, rational beings, and selves. Thus, to
count someone or something as a person is simultaneously to
describe it-as a particular, a role, a rational being, and a
self-and to prescribe certain norms concerning how it may act and
how others may act towards it. A group of distinguished thinkers
and philosophers here untangle these and other insights about
personhood, asking us to reconsider our most fundamental
assumptions of the self.
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