This conceptual paper addresses the role individual plays in sustainability against backdrop of ethical dimensions sustainability. We discuss relevance moral personhood as a basis for and develop model The outlines discusses morality from virtue ethics perspective. employ Buddhist approach conceptualizing sustainable person that is characterized by virtues, interdependent personhood, an inheren...

Even for persons who hold to the ethical acceptance of abortion practices in general, questions of detail often arise. If you assume the distinction between the physical human organism alone and the person that is associated with that organism, then you must face the question of whether it is permissible to abort a fetus if the corresponding person has come into being. We take the position that...

The paper is divided into two major parts, preceded by a short introduction. The first section consists of a theoretical discussion that examines the role of the dualist model and its accompanying dichotomous metaphorics in the development of Western ontology, epistemology, and personhood with particular emphasis on the nature/culture and body/mind dyads along with the role played by them as ‘r...

In their article, Farah and Heberlein (2007) argue that evidence from neuroscience may help us understand why a specific and non-arbitrary definition of personhood is so difficult. They suggest that we are possessed with an autonomous person network in our brains that may create the illusion of personhood in our minds from a range of stimuli, some ofwhich clearly are not persons, such as geomet...

In examining affective motivations and meanings associated with kin-based tattooing, this article proposes a practice of ‘s/kinship’: the tangible inscription relational personhood on body. While research Western tattooing has long been drawn into discourses deviance individual identity, little attention paid to social relations. Drawing surveys interview data, highlights significance kinship o...

Three forms of trust: topic-focused trust, general trust, and personal trust are distinguished. Personal trust is argued to be the most fundamental form of trust, deeply connected with the construction of one’s self. Information technology has posed new problems for us in assessing and developing appropriate forms of the trust that is central to our personhood.

Abstract It is sometimes assumed that, in order for animals to be adequately protected by the legal system, their status first needs change from property person one fell swoop. Legal personhood perceived as necessary requirement possess rights and become visible law, distinguished things. In this article I propose an alternative approach animal personhood, which construes road towards it a grad...