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Human Person (human + person)
Selected AbstractsON HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE PHILOSOPHY: DEVELOPING ONTO-HERMENEUTICS OF THE HUMAN PERSONJOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 2007CHUNG-YING CHENGArticle first published online: 18 DEC 200 [source] Venerable Catherine McAuley and The Dignity of the Human PersonNEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 972 2002Prudence Allen RSM First page of article [source] The Grace of God and the Equality of Human PersonsDIALOG, Issue 1 2003Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon The central concept in Reformation Theology,grace,finds resonance with notions of grace in Indian culture. The challenge of grace in India today is to bring equality to persons victimized by caste and genter discrimination. This article discusses (1) the biblical and theological meaning of "the grace of God"; (2) the universality of the grace experience; (3) the experience of society's excluded peoples; (4) sin; and (5) the graced community as a community of equals. [source] Précis of Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View,PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH, Issue 3 2002LYNNE RUDDER BAKER Persons and Bodies develops and defends an account of persons and of the relation between human persons and their bodies. Human persons are constituted by bodies, without being identical to the bodies that constitute them,just as, I argue, statues are constituted by pieces of bronze, say, without being identical to the pieces of bronze that constitute them. The relation of constitution, therefore, is not peculiar to persons and their bodies, but is pervasive in the natural world. [source] Max Scheler and the Idea of a Well Rounded EducationEDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY, Issue 3 2008Tapio Puolimatka Abstract The German philosopher Max Scheler defines the human person as a value-oriented act structure. Since a person is ideally a free being with open possibilities, the aim of education is to help human beings develop their potential in various directions. At the centre of Scheler's educational philosophy is the idea of all-round education, which aims towards a developed capacity for assessment, an ability to make choices and an ability to focus on the objective nature of things. [source] Hope in the Last Judgement and Human DignityINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 3 2000Wolf Krötke Reviewing modern criticisms of eschatological judgement, both theological and moral-philosophical, this article argues that the notion of the last judgement by Jesus Christ constitutes the dignity of the human person. In modern industrial societies, assertions of autonomous human self-realization rarely lead to human dignity. By contrast, God's acts as creator, saviour and judge constitute human worth. [source] ECCLESIAL EXISTENCE: PERSON AND COMMUNITY IN THE TRINITARIAN ANTHROPOLOGY OF ADRIENNE VON SPEYRMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 3 2008MICHELE M. SCHUMACHER Best known for her extraordinary influence upon Hans Urs von Balthasar, Adrienne von Speyr is perhaps overshadowed by the same. Here is an effort to expose her profound mystical insights concerning the specifically Trinitarian dimension of anthropology. Of key significance is the concept of surrender, whereby the human person participates in the fundamental disposition of Christ, whose self-gift is revealed as obedient receptivity vis-ŕ-vis the Father and loving generosity vis-ŕ-vis the world. This in turn is revelatory of the eternal surrender of each divine Person to the Others in a continuous exchange of love. The human person thus participates in divine life by the means that characterize it: love of God and neighbor. [source] IS THERE A CONSERVATIVE SOLUTION TO THE MANY THINKERS PROBLEM?RATIO, Issue 3 2010David Mark Kovacs On a widely shared assumption, our mental states supervene on our microphysical properties , that is, microphysical supervenience is true. When this thesis is combined with the apparent truism that human persons have proper parts, a grave difficulty arises: what prevents some of these proper parts from being themselves thinkers as well? How can I know that I am a human person and not a smaller thinker enclosed in a human person? Most solutions to this puzzle make radical, if not absurd, claims. Recently, however, Michael Burke and Howard Robinson proposed conservative solutions that, according to them, do not have such undesired consequences. This paper argues that the conservative solutions tacitly assume at least one of the radical ones, and therefore they provide no alternative to the extreme solutions. [source] NEW NATURAL LAW THEORY AND FOUNDATIONAL SEXUAL ETHICAL PRINCIPLES: A CRITIQUE AND A PROPOSALTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 2 2006TODD A. SALZMAN The New Natural Law Theory (NNLT) argues against the morality (and legality) of same sex-unions on the basis that homosexual (and non-reproductive heterosexual) acts are unnatural, unreasonable, and therefore immoral. In this paper, we explore and critique the foundational principles , biological and personal complementarity, their subcategories, and the interrelationship between them , that the NNLT uses to justify its claim. We propose alternative principles , orientation, personal, and genital-biological complementarity, with a distinct interrelationship , to argue that homosexual couples can engage in sexual acts that are natural, reasonable, and therefore moral. Our study clearly demonstrates that for the NNLT genital complementarity, a subcategory of biological complementarity, is the sine qua non for personal complementarity. In other words, personal complementarity within a sexual act is only possible if there is genital complementarity between male and female. We believe that the NNLT's foundational principles reflect too narrow an understanding of the human person and human sexuality. Instead, we propose "holistic complementarity" as the fully human integration of orientation, personal, and genital-biological complementarity. What defines a natural, reasonable, and moral sexual act is not genital complementarity as the foundational principle, but a dialectic between these three principles of complementarity. [source] General principles regarding the use of adult stem cellsCELL PROLIFERATION, Issue 2008I. Carrasco de Paula In the vast world of scientific investigation, few disciplines can boast of having realized documents of such ethical rigour, and respect for the integrity and intrinsic value of the human person has been one of the cardinal principles of the researcher. Research is intrinsic to the medical profession; the reward of research is knowledge and its techniques are ordered towards maintenance of human health. Since this end concerns human beings, it demands an extremely rigorous ethical approach. Ethical aspects are present from the first moments of the experimental project and occur on three levels: choice of the objectives, selection and use of the appropriate means for the study, and application of resultant new discoveries. Today, our moral attention cannot be reduced to a cost,benefit analysis. Biomedical sciences and medicine have overlapping areas of interest that can be sources of tension: the good of the subject versus scientific utility; profit versus complexity of research; liberty versus ethical and juridical bonds; the public versus the private; and the individual versus the community. Here, I attempt to formulate some essential principles that should guarantee humane measures for research on humans. [source] Vague Singulars, Semantic Indecision, and the Metaphysics of Persons,PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH, Issue 3 2007DONALD P. SMITH Composite materialism, as I will understand it, is the view that human persons are composite material objects. This paper develops and investigates an argument, The Vague Singulars Argument, for the falsity of composite materialism. We shall see that cogent or not, the Vague Singulars Argument has philosophically significant ramifications. [source] Précis of Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View,PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH, Issue 3 2002LYNNE RUDDER BAKER Persons and Bodies develops and defends an account of persons and of the relation between human persons and their bodies. Human persons are constituted by bodies, without being identical to the bodies that constitute them,just as, I argue, statues are constituted by pieces of bronze, say, without being identical to the pieces of bronze that constitute them. The relation of constitution, therefore, is not peculiar to persons and their bodies, but is pervasive in the natural world. [source] IS THERE A CONSERVATIVE SOLUTION TO THE MANY THINKERS PROBLEM?RATIO, Issue 3 2010David Mark Kovacs On a widely shared assumption, our mental states supervene on our microphysical properties , that is, microphysical supervenience is true. When this thesis is combined with the apparent truism that human persons have proper parts, a grave difficulty arises: what prevents some of these proper parts from being themselves thinkers as well? How can I know that I am a human person and not a smaller thinker enclosed in a human person? Most solutions to this puzzle make radical, if not absurd, claims. Recently, however, Michael Burke and Howard Robinson proposed conservative solutions that, according to them, do not have such undesired consequences. This paper argues that the conservative solutions tacitly assume at least one of the radical ones, and therefore they provide no alternative to the extreme solutions. [source] | ||||||||||