| Series |
Oxford Philosophical Concepts
Oxford philosophical concepts. ^A1258535
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| Contents |
Introduction / Karolina Hübner -- Plato and the Pleonectic Conception Of Human Nature / Rachana Kamtekar -- Aristotle's Human Beings / Marguerite Deslauriers & Edwin Filotas -- Reflection : Race and The Human / Charles W / Mills -- The Status of The Human in Classical Chinese Philosophy / Franklin Perkins -- The Nature of Human and Non-Human Animals in Classical Islamic Philosophy : Alfarabi And Avicenna / Luis Xavier López-Farjeat -- Reflection : The Trinity and the Human / Richard Cross -- Renaissance Conceptions of Human Being / Amos Edelheit -- Margaret Cavendish on Human Beings / Marcy Lascano And Eric Schliesser -- Spinoza on the Good Life for Humans / Ursula Renz -- Hobbes and Rousseau on Human Nature and the State Of Nature / Ioannis Evrigenis -- Reflection : Is Frankenstein's Creature a Human with Rights? Conceptualizing the Rights of the Child After Genetic Engineering / Eileen Hunt Botting -- The Concept of Humanity in Kant's Transcendental Philosophy / Clinton Tolley -- Reflection : Marx On Human Nature / Spencer J / Pack -- Heidegger on Human Being : The Living Thing Having Logos / Katherine Withy -- Reflection : The Compulsion of The Human / Ray Brassier -- Being Human, Being Homo Sapiens / D /M / Walsh -- Reflection : The Anthropomorphic Sixties and The Human / Christa Noel Robbins -- The Metaphysics of Transhumanism / Eric T. Olson. |
| Abstract |
This volume investigates what it means to be human. Is there something that makes us distinct from computers, other great apes, Martians, and gods? And what are the ethical and political consequences of how we answer this question? How have our views on this changed from the times of the ancient Greek and Chinese philosophers? What do contemporary evolutionary biologists and advocates of uploading human consciousness onto computers think about it? This volume collects new essays from leading scholars in philosophy, history, and other disciplines to explore these and numerous other questions. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-429) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Issued in other form | Electronic version: Human. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] 9780190876401 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021951530 |
| ISBN | 9780190876371 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0190876379 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780190876388 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0190876387 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ePub) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
