- Personal Identity

Catalog description

An examination of the concepts of personhood and identity as they relate to animal rights, abortion rights, environmental justice, end-of-life care, and penal justice. Issues we address in this course include: What is a person, as opposed to an animal or plant? When do we become persons, or are we persons from the beginning of our existence? What is the role of a community in our being and becoming a person? Can only a member of the species Homo sapiens be a person? What determines one’s identity in the sense that answers the question “Who am I (really)?” Are self-narrative and/or social identity markers essential to making us the particular person that we are?