What is a person? : untapped insights from Africa /

This text introduces a provocative new view of personhood that philosophers Nancy S. Jecker and Caesar A. Atuire call Emergent Personhood. It builds on philosophies from Africa and the West to argue that individuals' moral worth emerges through ocial relational processes with other human beings...

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Gespeichert in:
Hauptverfasser:
Jecker, Nancy Ann Silbergeld, Atuire, Caesar A.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
This text introduces a provocative new view of personhood that philosophers Nancy S. Jecker and Caesar A. Atuire call Emergent Personhood. It builds on philosophies from Africa and the West to argue that individuals' moral worth emerges through ocial relational processes with other human beings. The authors show the implications of Emergent Personhood for human beings across the lifespan, animals, nature, and non-living lands, soil, and rocks on earth and in space. The book considers the possibility of ascribing moral standing to machines, including large language models and social robots. Jecker and Atuire's collaboration represents the first-time philosophers from Africa and the West have joined forces to consider personhood. Their new philosophy of persons combines strengths of African and Western thought.
Umfang:
1 online resource (319 pages)
Zielpublikum:
Specialized.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780197690956
0197690955
9780197690932
0197690939
9780197690949
0197690947
Schlagworte:
Persons > Philosophy.
Human beings > Philosophy.
Philosophy, African.
Philosophy.
Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge.
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