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- catalog abstract ""Just what is a human being? Who counts? The answers to these questions are crucial when one is faced with the ethical issue of taking human life. In this affirmation of the intrinsic personal dignity and inviolability of every human individual, John Kavanaugh, S.J., denies that it can ever be moral to intentionally kill another." "Today, in every corner of the world, men and women are willing to kill others in the name of "realism" and under the guise of race, quality of life, sex, property, nationalism, security, or religion. We justify these killings by either excluding certain humans from our definition of personhood or by invoking a greater good or more pressing value." "Kavanaugh contends that neither alternative is acceptable. He formulates an ethics that opposes the intentional killing not only of medically "marginal" humans but also of depersonalized or criminalized enemies. Offering a philosophy of the person that embraces the undeveloped, the wounded, and the dying, he proposes ways to recover a personal ethical stance in a global society that increasingly devalues the individual." "Kavanaugh discusses the work of a range of philosophers, artists, and activists from Richard Rorty and Soren Kierkegaard to Albert Camus and Woody Allen, from Mother Teresa to Jack Kevorkian. His approach is in stark contrast to that of writer Peter Singer and others who believe that not all human life has intrinsic moral worth. It will challenge philosophers, students of ethics, and anyone concerned about the depersonalization of contemporary life."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12017164.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Just what is a human being? Who counts? The answers to these questions are crucial when one is faced with the ethical issue of taking human life. In this affirmation of the intrinsic personal dignity and inviolability of every human individual, John Kavanaugh, S.J., denies that it can ever be moral to intentionally kill another." "Today, in every corner of the world, men and women are willing to kill others in the name of "realism" and under the guise of race, quality of life, sex, property, nationalism, security, or religion. We justify these killings by either excluding certain humans from our definition of personhood or by invoking a greater good or more pressing value." "Kavanaugh contends that neither alternative is acceptable. He formulates an ethics that opposes the intentional killing not only of medically "marginal" humans but also of depersonalized or criminalized enemies. Offering a philosophy of the person that embraces the undeveloped, the wounded, and the dying, he proposes ways to recover a personal ethical stance in a global society that increasingly devalues the individual." "Kavanaugh discusses the work of a range of philosophers, artists, and activists from Richard Rorty and Soren Kierkegaard to Albert Camus and Woody Allen, from Mother Teresa to Jack Kevorkian. His approach is in stark contrast to that of writer Peter Singer and others who believe that not all human life has intrinsic moral worth. It will challenge philosophers, students of ethics, and anyone concerned about the depersonalization of contemporary life."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. Personal losses -- Traces of lost persons -- The fear and call of personal reality -- Social and political depersonalization -- Impersonal theory, de-personed philosophy -- The texture of personal reality and ethical experience -- 3. Personal bodies -- On the matter and spirit of maps -- On the matter and spirit of persons -- Personal embodiment -- Body as object, body as subject -- Ambiguities of embodiment -- The "my-ness" and "me-ness" of a personal body -- Personal consciousness -- Personalized world -- 4. Endowments of embodied persons -- Personal foundations -- Awareness of awareness, selves, and persons -- The endowment of freedom -- The endowment of love in self-conscious affirmation -- Endowed human persons -- Personal nature -- 5. Personal entries into ethics -- Inescapable perspectives of persons -- Achieving the moral good and doing the right thing -- Kant and the pull to the interior -- Mill and the pull outward -- The personal center -- The intrinsic turn -- Killing, autonomy, and intrinsic values -- 6. Before good and evil -- The field of moral experience -- The dynamics of personal moral judgment -- The subjective internal dimension -- The objective external dimension -- Context, culture, and personal challenge -- Negation of truth and the beginning of evil -- Falls and crimes -- 7. Killing persons and ethics -- The logic of terror -- The moral inviolability of persons -- Defending life by intending death -- Killing incomplete persons -- Killing defective or dying persons -- 8. Reviving personal life -- The choice of realities -- The "reality" of consumer capitalism -- Reviving personal solitude -- Recovering personal solitude -- Recovering personal relationships -- Revealing human vulnerability.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-225) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 233 p.".
- catalog identifier "0878408363 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Moral traditions & moral arguments.".
- catalog isPartOf "[Moral traditions and moral arguments series]".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press,".
- catalog subject "179.7 21".
- catalog subject "BJ1469 .K38 2001".
- catalog subject "Life and death, Power over.".
- catalog subject "Philosophical anthropology.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. Personal losses -- Traces of lost persons -- The fear and call of personal reality -- Social and political depersonalization -- Impersonal theory, de-personed philosophy -- The texture of personal reality and ethical experience -- 3. Personal bodies -- On the matter and spirit of maps -- On the matter and spirit of persons -- Personal embodiment -- Body as object, body as subject -- Ambiguities of embodiment -- The "my-ness" and "me-ness" of a personal body -- Personal consciousness -- Personalized world -- 4. Endowments of embodied persons -- Personal foundations -- Awareness of awareness, selves, and persons -- The endowment of freedom -- The endowment of love in self-conscious affirmation -- Endowed human persons -- Personal nature -- 5. Personal entries into ethics -- Inescapable perspectives of persons -- Achieving the moral good and doing the right thing -- Kant and the pull to the interior -- Mill and the pull outward -- The personal center -- The intrinsic turn -- Killing, autonomy, and intrinsic values -- 6. Before good and evil -- The field of moral experience -- The dynamics of personal moral judgment -- The subjective internal dimension -- The objective external dimension -- Context, culture, and personal challenge -- Negation of truth and the beginning of evil -- Falls and crimes -- 7. Killing persons and ethics -- The logic of terror -- The moral inviolability of persons -- Defending life by intending death -- Killing incomplete persons -- Killing defective or dying persons -- 8. Reviving personal life -- The choice of realities -- The "reality" of consumer capitalism -- Reviving personal solitude -- Recovering personal solitude -- Recovering personal relationships -- Revealing human vulnerability.".
- catalog title "Who count as persons? : human identity and the ethics of killing / John F. Kavanaugh.".
- catalog type "text".