Book contents
- What is a Person?
- What is a Person?
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Constructing the ‘Mainline Tradition’
- Part II No God, no Soul: What Person?
- Part III Toward Disabling the Person
- Part IV Persons Restored or Final Solution?
- 21 Parfit and Heidegger
- 22 Strawson and Nagel
- 23 Personalism, Phenomenology, Edith Stein
- 24 God Made Adam and Eve
- Epilogue or Epitaph?
- Appendix The World of Rights Transformed Again
- Bibliography
- Index
21 - Parfit and Heidegger
from Part IV - Persons Restored or Final Solution?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2019
- What is a Person?
- What is a Person?
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Constructing the ‘Mainline Tradition’
- Part II No God, no Soul: What Person?
- Part III Toward Disabling the Person
- Part IV Persons Restored or Final Solution?
- 21 Parfit and Heidegger
- 22 Strawson and Nagel
- 23 Personalism, Phenomenology, Edith Stein
- 24 God Made Adam and Eve
- Epilogue or Epitaph?
- Appendix The World of Rights Transformed Again
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Since Kant, if not before, British (and North American) and ‘Continental’ philosophers have usually taken different roads – and that despite the fact that Kant himself had and still has a massive influence north and west of the English Channel. In Britain, apart from Kantianism, we have seen the dominance of varying forms of utilitarianism from Bentham to Sidgwick to Moore and, in a striking contemporary version, to Parfit. On the Continent, we started with the various ‘Idealisms’ of Fichte and Hegel, then passed to Marx, then to post-Brentano phenomenology (in the first instance that of Husserl) and on to Heidegger, Sartre and other Existentialists and post-modernists.
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- What is a Person?Realities, Constructs, Illusions, pp. 203 - 211Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019