Personhood and ensoulment
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- Created on: 22-04-15 16:24
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- Personhood
- Jack Mahoney
- Sets out criteria for personhood including the ability to make free choices and having emotions
- Michael Tooley
- Not a person if you lack awareness of self
- Mary Anne Warren
- True moral status from birth. Viability
- Sentience, emotionality, reason, the capacity to communicate, self-awareness, moral agency
- John Gallagher
- Impractical to draw lines such as person/not a person
- Relational factors
- A human being only becomes a person when accepted as such by others.
- Personhood can therefore be a matter of social convention eg. Parents naming a child
- A human being only becomes a person when accepted as such by others.
- Ensoulement
- Augustine
- The soul is implanted after 46 days
- Aquinas
- Girls souls implanted after 90 days and boys souls are implanted after 40 days
- Catholic Church
- Ensoulment takes place from conception
- Gilbert Ryle
- Talk of soul rest on a category mistake. The soul is not separate from the body
- Augustine
- Jonathan Glover
- To call a foetus a person from conception stretches the term beyond normal boundaries
- Jack Mahoney
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