000 02269cam a2200373 a 4500
001 7986849
003 ARRUPE
005 20151006094603.0
008 091006s2010 ilu b 001 0 eng c
010 _a 2009041981
020 _a9780226765914 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 _a0226765911 (hardcover : alk. paper)
024 _a40018273882
035 _a(OCoLC)ocn456421198
035 _a(OCoLC)456421198
035 _a(NNC)7986849
040 _aICU/DLC
_cDLC
_dYDX
_dYDXCP
_dUKM
_dOrLoB-B
042 _apcc
050 0 0 _aBD450
_b.S558 2010
082 0 0 _a128
_222
100 1 _aSmith, Christian,
_d1960-
_920072
245 1 0 _aWhat is a person? :
_brethinking humanity, social life, and the moral good from the person up /
_cChristian Smith.
260 _aChicago :
_bUniversity of Chicago Press,
_c2010.
300 _ax, 518 p. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _gPART I.
_tInitial Arguments --
_gChapter 1.
_tThe Emergence of Personhood --
_gChapter 2.
_tKey Theoretical Resources --
_gPART II.
_tCritical Engagements --
_gChapter 3.
_tThe Reality of Social Construction --
_tExcursus: Getting to Truth --
_gChapter 4.
_tNetwork Structuralism's Missing Persons --
_gChapter 5.
_tPersons and Mechanisms (Not) in Variables, Sociology --
_gPART III.
_tConstructive Development --
_gChapter 6.
_tThe Personal Sources of Social Structures --
_gChapter 7.
_tThe Good --
_gChapter 8.
_tHuman Dignity.
520 _aThe task of understanding human beings, what we ourselves are, our constitution and condition, is a perennial problem in philosophy and related disciplines. Smith argues here that our understanding of human persons is threatened by technological development and capricious academic theories alike, seeking to deny or relativize the personhood of humanity. Smith's book puts a stake in the ground, in defense of a view of the human that is genuinely humanistic in the traditional sense and capable of sustaining with intellectual coherence things like modern human rights and universal benevolence.
650 0 _aPersons.
_920073
650 0 _aPhilosophical anthropology.
_920074
900 _bTOC
942 _2lcc
_cMONOGRAPH
948 1 _a20100922
_bc
_cybp21
_dMPS
949 _i0070039380
999 _c123458
_d123458