Table of Contents
Topical Units for Constructing Syllabi vii
Preface xi
1. Plato 1
1a. Phaedo 80c–84b 2
1b. Phaedrus 246a–b, 253c–256e 5
1c. Republic 439c–442b 8
2. Aristotle 11
On the Soul, ii.2, iii.4–5 12
3. Cicero 17
On Obligations I §§105–118 18
4. Epictetus 22
4a. The Discourses i.2, i.29 23
4b. The Handbook §17, §37 29
5. Clement of Alexandria 30
Protrepticus 10.110.2.2 31
6. Boethius 32
Contra Eutychen §§2–4 33
7. St Anselm 38
The Incarnation of the Word, §§ 8-16 39
8. St Thomas Aquinas 47
Summa Theologica, 1st Part, QQ. 29–30♦ 48
9. John Duns Scotus 61
Ordinatio, I, d.26, q.un., excerpt♦ 62
10. René Descartes 67
Treatise on Man, excerpt 68
11. Thomas Hobbes 76
Leviathan, 1st part, Chapter 16 77
12. John Locke 81
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ii.27 §§9–27 82
13. J. O. de la Mettrie 91
Man a Machine, excerpt 92
14. G. W. Leibniz 97
New Essays on the Human Understanding, excerpt 98
15. David Hume 108
A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part 4, §6 109
16. Immanuel Kant 116
16a. Critique of Pure Reason, 3rd Paralogism of personality♦ 117
16b. Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, excerpt 119
16c. The Doctrine of Virtue, excerpts♦ 121
17. Søren Kierkegaard 125
The Sickness unto Death, excerpt 126
18. Auguste Comte 135
The Positive Philosophy, excerpt 136
19. F. W. Nietzsche 142
19a. The Gay Science, §345 143
19b. Beyond Good and Evil, Part 1 §6, §§16–19, Part 2 §41, Part §3 54, Part §6 207 145
19c. The Will to Power, §886 150
20. Simone Weil 152
“Human Personality” 153
21. Jean-Paul Sartre 168
"Existentialism" 169
22. P.F. Strawson 177
Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics, excerpt 178
23. C. D. Broad 187
“The Validity of Belief in a Personal God” 188
24. Richard Taylor 199
“The Anattá Doctrine and Personal Identity” 200
25. H. G. Frankfurt 206
“Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person”♦ 207
26. M. A. Warren 218
“On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion” 219
27. Daniel Dennett 226
“Conditions of Personhood” 227
28. R. M. Smullyan 241
“Is God a Taoist?” 242
29. I. A. Menkiti 255
“Person and Community in African Traditional Thought” 256
30. P. A. French 263
“The Corporation as a Moral Person”♦ 264
31. Charles Taylor 275
“The Concept of a Person” 276
32. Roland Puccetti 288
"The life of a Person" 289
33. Derek Parfit 299
Reasons and Persons, excerpts♦ 300
34. Mary Midgley 313
“Persons and Non-Persons” 314
35. Gary Legenhausen 321
“Is God a Person?” 322
36. A. O. Rorty 336
“Persons and Personae” 337
37. R. G. A. Dolby 351
“The Possibility of Computers becoming Persons,” excerpts 352
38. Troels Engberg-Pedersen 365
“Stoic Philosophy and the Concept of the Person”♦ 366
39. Oswald Hanfling 379
“Machines as Persons?” excepts 380
40. Raymond Martin 387
“Was Spinoza a Person?” 388
Response by Nicholas Rescher 393
41. W. O. Stephens 396
“Masks, Androids, and Primates: The Evolution of the Concept ‘Person’” 397
42. The Boyd Group 409
“The Moral Status of Non-human Primates: Are Apes Persons?” 410
