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Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics

Questions what a human person is and the ethical and political controversies of issues such as abortion and hedonism.

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  • "Questions what a human person is and the ethical and political controversies of issues such as abortion and hedonism."@en
  • "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."

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  • "Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics"@en
  • "Body-self dualism in contemporary ethics and politics"
  • "Body-self dualism in contemporary ethics and politics"@en

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