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Baker - The Importance Of Being a Person

(Text as at 18/12/2010 19:58:05)

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This note controls my detailed review of "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Importance Of Being a Person", Chapter 6 of "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View". I’ve pirated the Oxford Scholarship Online summaries as a temporary expedient.

OSO Note:

• Discusses the importance of personhood. Only persons can be moral agents or rational agents. Persons have many cognitive and practical abilities that beings lacking first-person perspectives lack. Only beings with first-person perspectives can know that they are going to die; only such beings can envisage alternative possibilities for their own futures, or seek self-understanding. Only beings with first-person perspectives can have ideals or can try to change themselves to conform better to their ideals. Human persons are not only the products of evolution, but (unlike any other finite beings) only human persons can deliberately change the course of evolution – not only by artificial breeding, but more directly by genetic engineering.
• Section Headings:-
  1. Moral Agency
  2. Rational Agency
  3. Some Cognitive and Practical Capacities
  4. Unity of Consciousness
  5. Conclusion

… Further details to be supplied¹

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Previous Version of this Note:

Date	Length	Title
12/02/2009 21:30:14	1125	Baker - The Importance Of Being a Person

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
18/12/2010 19:58:05	None available	Baker - Persons and Bodies

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Book - Cited	Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Importance Of Being a Person	Paper - Cited	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 6	Yes

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