What Is a Person?
An Ethical Exploration
Foreword by Lawrence J. Schneiderman
Delving into one of life's fundamental questions
Cloth – $44
978-0-252-02278-4
Publication Date
Cloth: 01/01/1997
About the Book
At a time when technology can sustain marginal life, it is increasingly important to understand what constitutes a person. What medical, ethical, moral, mental, legal, and philosophical criteria answer that most ambitious and complicated question: what human life should we protect?James Walters provides a much-needed religious/philosophical context for contemporary thinking on just what constitutes life we consider valuable. Walters broadens his inquiry beyond the human to include other animals. Searching for a measurable and humane standard of personhood, Walters looks at the current definition of it and declares it inadequate--offering instead the idea of proximate personhood, with criteria for helping to determine which individuals possess a claim to life.
About the Author
James W. Walters is a professor of ethics at Loma Linda University. His many books include What's with Free Will? Ethics and Religion after Neuroscience.Related Titles
