PDF-(DOWNLOAD)-Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture

What kind of animals are human beings And how do our visions of the human shape our theories of social action and institutions In Moral Believing Animals Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers innovative challenging answers to these and otherfundamental questions in sociological cultural and religious theorySmith suggests that human beings have a peculiar set of capacities and proclivities that distinguishes them significantly from other animals on this planet Despite the vast differences in humanity between cultures and across history no matter how differently people narrate their lives andhistories there remains an underlying structure of human personhood that helps to order human culture history and narration Drawing on important recent insights in moral philosophy epistemology and narrative studies Smith argues that humans are animals who have an inescapable moral andspiritual dimension They cannot avoid a fundamental moral orientation in life and this says Smith has profound consequences for how sociology must study human beings. Human Rights. Distinguishing features of human rights 1. HR.  are . minimal . standards. :. they set . the “lower limits on tolerable human conduct” rather than “great aspirations and exalted ideals” . Adapted from https. ://sites.google.com/site/highlandhsp3m/unit-1-what-makes-us-human. What does being human mean to you?. What distinguishes humans from animals?. Take a moment an think. REALLY think.. The Rights View. Terminology. Moral agent:.   can think/act morally, can be held responsible for actions (most of us, but not babies; not people with certain severe mental disabilities). Moral patient. William J. Frey. College of Business Administration. UPRM. Preliminary, Meta-ethical Considerations. What environmental ethics is not. It is not an accounting of all laws, statutes, regulations relating to the environment.. The Moral Status of the Non-Human World: . Cohen and Warren. Regan and Animal Rights. Tom Regan makes clear his commitment to the animal rights . movement in his book . The Case for Animal Rights. .. The Moral Status of the Non-Human World: . Cohen and Warren. Regan and Animal Rights. Tom Regan makes clear his commitment to the animal rights . movement in . the article “Are Zoos Morally Defensible.”. Our choices define us and as a result our intuitions about the human condition are satisfied.. Dualism . Kant . Existentialism. What does all of this mean? . LIBERTARIAN DESCRIPTION OF THE HUMAN CONDITION. Kant, Singer, . Steinbock. Kant: animals are not our equals. IN. OUT. Kant: animals are not our equals. self. -aware, moral. so have dignity, are owed respect. s. hould employ . categorical imperative . The Moral Status of the Non-Human World: . Matheny. Animals and Moral Standing. As we saw in our discussion of abortion, the question of the possible Direct Moral Standing of the fetus has a number of implications for the attempt to specify the moral status/standing of non-human animals.. How do we use animals? Is it morally indifferent, right, bad?. Why to care for relationship to animals?. 1) We can´t wait till the problems in human ethics will be resolved. 2) Matters are connected. By . Ifeanyi. A. . Menkiti. (1984). Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to describe a picture of the African traditional . “person. ,” . one that is different than Westerner’s traditional . Some writers/filmmakers I study. Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Alice Walker, J. M. Coetzee, John Huston, Arthur Miller, James Agee, Michel Faber, Deborah Levy. Specifically: I am interested in . questions about . personhood What is personhood? Are you a person? What about Superman? C-3PO? A 9-month-old baby? A fetus? Person: a philosophical term – a being who is part of a moral community Human: biological term – a being containing human DNA IDA MADIEHA BT ABDUL GHANI AZMI. PROFESSOR. IIUM. Key Points . 2. Where we come from – the liability gap. Debates on AI personhood. Analogy with corporate bodies as artificial entities. conclusion.