Unbecoming Persons
The Rise and Demise of the Modern Moral Self
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Unbecoming Persons
The Rise and Demise of the Modern Moral Self
304 pages | 6 x 9
Philosophy: Ethics, General Philosophy, Philosophy of Society, Political Philosophy
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Question of How to Live
1. “God Is No Respecter of Persons”: The Modern Person’s Ancestors from the Ancients to the English Civil Wars
2. Subject of/to Judgment: John Locke and God’s Three Persons
3. Imposing Personhood: African Enslavement and Indigenous Resistance
4. Sovereign Persons, Nonpersons, and Corporate Persons: The United States in the Nineteenth Century
5. Questioning Ownership
6. Questioning Individuality
7. Imagining Life After Personhood
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index
1. “God Is No Respecter of Persons”: The Modern Person’s Ancestors from the Ancients to the English Civil Wars
2. Subject of/to Judgment: John Locke and God’s Three Persons
3. Imposing Personhood: African Enslavement and Indigenous Resistance
4. Sovereign Persons, Nonpersons, and Corporate Persons: The United States in the Nineteenth Century
5. Questioning Ownership
6. Questioning Individuality
7. Imagining Life After Personhood
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index