MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 03121cam a2200313 a 4500
001 2007020753
003 DLC
005 20080104100752.0
008 070521s2008 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007020753
020 $a9780521882484 (hardback)
020 $a0521882486 (hardback)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn137244663
035 $a(OCoLC)137244663
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dBTCTA$dBAKER$dYDXCP$dDLC
050 00 $aBD450$b.L3735 2008
082 00 $a171/.2$222
100 1 $aLee, Patrick,$d1952-
245 10 $aBody-self dualism in contemporary ethics and politics /$cPatrick Lee, Robert P. George.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2008.
300 $aix, 222 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aHuman 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.
650 0 $aPhilosophical anthropology.
650 0 $aEthics.
700 1 $aGeorge, Robert P.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0718/2007020753.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0743/2007020753-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0743/2007020753-d.html