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Human uniqueness and human dignity: persons in nature and the nature of persons

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author
dc.contributor.authorPresident's Council on Bioethics, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T04:29:27Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T04:29:27Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.descriptionAlso published in: Pellegrino, Edmund D., Adam Schulman, and Thomas W. Merrill, eds. Human Dignity and Bioethics, 129-153. Norte Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009.
dc.description.abstractThe gulf separating humans from all other species can sensitize us to our potential for dignity. Only humans have linguistic capacities capable of sustaining cumulative transmissible cultures. Ideas pass from mind to mind. Our ideas and deliberated practices re-configure our brain structures. The human brain, the most complex thing known in the universe, can generate ideals. Humans become existential and ethical persons, embodied "spirit."
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, Human Uniqueness and Human Dignity: Persons in Nature and the Nature of Persons, Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics, 126-153. Washington, D.C.: President's Council on Bioethics, 2008.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/37183
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles
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dc.subjectculture
dc.subjectteaching
dc.subjectlearning
dc.subjectmorals
dc.subjecthumanity
dc.subjectdignity
dc.subjectpersonal identity
dc.subjectuniqueness
dc.subjectnature
dc.titleHuman uniqueness and human dignity: persons in nature and the nature of persons
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