Health Sciences 2610F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sex Robot, Fetus, Music Appreciation
11 Oct 2018
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The biological category from which personhood is derived: people and humans are not synonymous, humans big biological species where all belong. The legal and moral status: a person is not a thing, a person has rights and responsibilities, endowed with dignity, deserving respect, e. g. Roxxxi is a thing, but a person is not a thing. If a person is one that is able to contemplate, now you can judge people based on their ability to have it. Women are too emotional and tied to hormones to be rational, so in that regard, they aren"t people. From reason : philosophers of the renaissance, the main distinction between men and non-men was their intellectual activity, men shared behaviour with animals procreative, excretory, physiological systems, but the superior minds of men made them better. If you can interact with a human, they are considered a person. Audio: the rights and wrongs of abortion: rebecca roache ethics of abortion.
