Persons : a history / Antonia LoLordo
- Published
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Additional Creators
- LoLordo, Antonia, 1972-
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Part I -- 1.Funerals, Faces, and Hellenistic Philosophers: On the Origins of the Concept of Person in Rome / Rene Brouwer -- Reflection I The Minotaur / Gregory Hays -- 2.Persons in Patristic and Medieval Christian Theology / Scott M. Williams -- Part II -- 3.Persons in Islamicate Philosophy from Ibn Sina to Sabzavari / Anthony F. Shaker -- 4.Medieval Mystics on Persons: What John Locke Didn't Tell You / Christina Van Dyke -- 5.Persons in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy / Antonia Lolordo -- Reflection II Persons as Food in Voltaire's Candide / Jennifer Tsien -- 6.The Concept of a Person in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy: Leibniz---Wolff--- Kant / Udo Thiel -- 7.The Concept of Persons in Kant and Fichte / Owen Ware -- Part III -- 8.Personhood in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Philosophy / Aaron Preston -- 9.Persons and Selves in Buddhist Philosophy / Mark Siderits -- Reflection III Ghosts in Their Shells / Sylvia Shin Huey Chong -- 10.Persons and Moral Status / Julie Tannenbaum.
- Summary
- This volume provides a genealogy of the concept of a person. By asking when and why the concept of a person came into existence, it explains what the concept of a person is and how it differs from the concept of a human being and the concept of a self.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780190634421 (ebook)
- Audience Notes
- Specialized.
- Note
- Also issued in print: 2019.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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