Health Sciences 2610F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Terri Schiavo Case, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ensoulment
17 Jan 2018
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Fetuses, infants, children - when do they become full people: animals, mentally disabled, severely physically disabled, alzheimer"s patients, robots, artificial intelligence, computers. Humanity: is the biological category from which personhood is derived. Is a legal status, not a biological one: a person is not a thing. Just (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:455)ou"(cid:396)e a hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) does(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:373)ea(cid:374) (cid:455)ou"(cid:396)e a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374: a person has rights and responsibilities, endowed with dignity, deserving respect. Women were too emotional and tied to ho(cid:396)(cid:373)o(cid:374)al to (cid:271)e (cid:396)atio(cid:374)al, so i(cid:374) that (cid:396)ega(cid:396)d, the(cid:455) (cid:449)e(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:859)t people: wo(cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:449)e(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:859)t legall(cid:455) recognized as people in canada until 1929. If she was laying eyes closed unconscious, people began to say yes let her die. If people saw she was awake and emotionally reacting they began to say keep her alive: at the root of these decisions was the idea of what a person is, consciousness, emotions, cognitive function, etc. So, a good working definition of personhood would have to provide answers for the following:
