ROBERT SPAEMANN AND ONTOLOGY IN ETHICS (Robert Spaemann i ontologia w etyce)

• Authors: Kakol Tomasz
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In the article the author inquires whether Robert Spaemann's naturalistic arguments for the claim that every human being is a person (in his book 'Persons: The Difference Between 'Someone' and 'Something' (Personen. Versuche ueber den Unterschied zwischen 'etwas' und 'jemand'); let us call it 'the personalistic thesis') are successful and whether it is possible to support Spaemann's ethical intuitions in the absence of the personalistic thesis. In particular, he discusses several ontological interpretations of the twin fission phenomenon. He concludes that although Spaemann's arguments are not valid, an alternative argumentation is possible on the basis of the moral importance of the (personal) identity relation and the moral importance of the 'person-making' teleology.

Keywords

EN

HUMAN BEING; PERSON; PERSONAL IDENTITY; SPAEMANN ROBERT - PERSONALISTIC THESIS

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Umiejętności / Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 37
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 211-222
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kakol Tomasz

• Tomasz Kakol, Uniwersytet Gdanski, Instytut Filozofii, Socjologii I Dziennikarstwa, ul.Bielanska 5, 80-851 Gdansk, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA074313