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Showing 1 to 20 of 231 for “"personhood"”.
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Kant on Personhood
Kant is clear that we owe duties to persons, chief among them the duty to treat persons as ends and never as mere means. But the very ability to act with respect for this duty is grounded on the prior ability to distinguish between persons and non-persons. How is this possible given Kant’s view …
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When Does Personhood Begin?
… main research question to be answered: when does personhood begin? The chapter outlines the context of the debate, explains the importance of this issue and its relevance to Christian life, and presents the thesis and methodology of this dissertation.Chapter 2 sets a foundation for the debate by …
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Personhood, Persistence, and Constitution
… her view results from too broad a concept of personhood. This is the result of confusing the causal with the constitutive features of personhood. Once these features are distinguished, we can see why psychological continuity provides a better account of a person’s persistence.
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Empirical Meaning and Incomplete Personhood
… starting points is a picture of incomplete personhood in which persons are seen as being inclined both toward experiential wholes which have conceptual content and toward establishing and unifying beliefs which resolve doubts. Because of the conditions of experience constitutive of, and …
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ONLY HUMAN: PERSONHOOD AND THE NEWLY CONCEIVED
… thesis I will consider four criteria for human personhood that many authors argue are not met by human embryos. These criteria are as follows: 1) being a human organism, 2) being an individual entity, 3) being an independent entity, and 4) being a conscious entity. In this thesis I endeavour to …
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Personhood, Collective Intention and Corporate Moral Responsibility
… of the global financial crisis of 2007-08. Legal personhood is essential for understanding corporations because they are legally constructed, not natural. Personhood is fundamental for corporate accumulation of constitutional rights in US law. However, the dominant aggregation legal theory treats …
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Agentive Personhood: Finding Yourself Through Serving Others
… ultimately become a defining part of one’s personhood. I contextualize my experiences, and later that of my peers, using various critical education frameworks, Transformative Activist Stance (TAS), Black Emancipatory Action Research (BEAR), and other theoretical frameworks. I also discuss …
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Multi-dimensional personhood and the welfare state
… a multi-dimensional understanding of human personhood. Thus, a theological understanding of human persons will recognise their created, material, agential, sinful, relational, transcendent, and creative nature, as well, in particular, as their ultimate orientation to, and fulfilment by, …
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Embryo Adoption: Implications of Personhood, Marriage, and Parenthood
One’s personal claims regarding personhood will influence his moral belief regarding embryo adoption. In Chapter One, I consider the personhood of the human embryo. If the human embryo is a person, we are morally obligated to permit the practice of embryo adoption as an ethical means to save human …
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Trinitarian pneumatological personhood and the theology of John Zizioulas
… historical and theological paradigm of personhood to present a trinitarian pneumatologically constituted personhood of communion, becoming a complete person as a specific Christian anthropology. Zizioulas defines personhood as persons-in-communion rather than individuals in isolation. …
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Memory, language, self and time : personhood and relationship in dementia
… Western thought shapes assumptions about the personhood status of elderly persons with dementia and their capacity for meaningful relationship. The ethnographic data that informs the study was drawn from a three-month period of in-depth participant-observation conducted in a dementia ward …
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Mary as Ecclesial Person: The Key to Modernity's Quest for Personhood
… and rationality, yet what it describes is less personhood than dualistic individuality. It has recognised relationality yet either doubts the essence of the other as “real” or has prioritised collectivity to such a degree that persons as unique entities have become lost. Modernity rejects …
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Wanbel: Conflict, Reconciliation and Personhood among the Sam People, Madang Province
… Melanesian themes of conflict, reconciliation, personhood and agency through an ethnographic exploration of how personhood and relationships are managed, mediated, and navigated in contemporary Papua New Guinea.
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Print, power and personhood: Newspapers and ethnic identity in East Siberia
This PhD research investigates the relevance of non-Russian Siberian culture and identity both for the state institutions in the regions concerned, and for the Russian Federation’s central government. As the first chapter describes, Sovietera policy towards the Soviet Union’s non-Russian peoples …
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Power On: The ‘Digital Other’ and Emergent Personhood in American Sci-Fi
… of homogenizing pressures. Posthumously, his personhood is acknowledged as the protagonists use technological glimpses to explore their own memories of the subject and acknowledge the fullness of his many unseen identities. The project concludes by analyzing romance with the digital other, …
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Eucharist shaping: church, mission and personhood in Gabriel Hebert’s liturgy and society
… has a missional character. The third theme is personhood. This theme comes from Hebert’s conception of what shapes persons through liturgy. I propose the notion of ‘liturgical anthropology’ as a way of articulating Hebert’s idea of personhood.<br/>The thesis sets Hebert in context historically …
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State personhood and world politics: a personology of the South African state
… seriously contemplated the implications of state personhood for our understanding of politics among nations, and the importance of this approach to International Relations (IR) for research on state behaviours. Pushing Alexander Wendt’s (1999) claim that “states are people too” beyond its present …
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An analysis of the affirmation of personhood in United Methodist Church kindergarten curriculum
… determine to what extent the curriculum affrims personhood, The study is limited to six years of kindergarten curriculum, fall 1967 through summer 1973.</p><p>The first objective is to examine the curriculum to discover the extent of affirmation of personhood in general. The second objective is …
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