Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
1 Human Beings Are Animals......Page 16
I Main Challenges to Establishing the First Premise......Page 17
II Animals are Enduring Agents......Page 18
III  Sensation is a Bodily Act......Page 22
IV In Human Beings the Agent that Performs the Act of Sensing Is Identical with the Agent that Performs the Act of Understanding......Page 27
V An Argument from the Nature of Human Intelligence......Page 28
VI On Privileged Access and the Modal Argument for Substance Dualism......Page 31
VII Human and Personal Identity: The Psychological Continuity View......Page 34
VIII Against Constitutionalism......Page 50
IX Conjoined Twins and Organic Unity and Distinctness......Page 56
2 Human Beings Are Persons......Page 62
A Conceptual Thought......Page 64
B Free Choice, Moral Agency......Page 71
A The Human Soul after Death......Page 78
B Resurrection of the Body......Page 86
III Personhood and Human Dignity......Page 93
I What Hedonism Is......Page 107
II Preliminary Arguments against Psychological and Ethical Hedonism......Page 110
III An Argument against Hedonism from Qualitative Differences among Pleasures......Page 112
IV Hedonism and Dualism......Page 115
V Pleasures are Good only as Aspects of Real Perfections......Page 120
VI Hedonistic Drug-Taking......Page 127
4 Abortion......Page 130
I The Biological Issue: Human Embryos and Fetuses Are Complete (Though Immature) Human Beings......Page 131
II No-Person Arguments: The Dualist Version......Page 142
III No-Person Arguments: The Evaluative Version......Page 145
IV The Argument that Abortion Is Justified as Nonintentional Killing......Page 152
5 Euthanasia......Page 163
I Human Life and Personhood  Near the End of Life......Page 164
II The Human Individual Remains a Person during His or Her Whole Duration......Page 166
III Why Suicide and Euthanasia Are Morally Wrong......Page 167
IV Intentional Killing versus Causing Death as a Side Effect......Page 169
V Human Life Is an Intrinsic Good......Page 172
VI The Definition of Death......Page 175
VII The Criterion of Death......Page 177
VIII Human Life and Dignity......Page 181
6 Sex and the Body......Page 188
I Sex and Marriage......Page 191
II Sex and Pleasure......Page 197
III Sex, Love, and Affection......Page 205
A Sodomy......Page 206
B Fornication......Page 208
IV Objections......Page 209
V Nonmarital Sexual Acts, Multiple Partners,  Incest,  Bestiality.........Page 221
Index......Page 231