Persons: The Difference Between `Someone' and `Something'

by Robert Spaemann

Book Overview

An examination and defense of the concept of personality, long central to Western moral culture but now increasingly under attack, by a leading European philosopher. Persons takes issue with major contemporary philosophers, especially in the English-speaking world (such as Parfit and Singer), who have contributed to the eclipse of the idea, and traces the debate back to the foundations of modern philosophy in Descartes and Locke. Robert Spaemann offers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198808488
• ISBN13: 9780198808480
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"