Human Persons as Social Entities

Journal of Social Ontology

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Lynne Rudder Baker¹ 

[1] University of Massachusetts Amherst

关键词: First-person perspective;    Persons;    Robust;    Rudimentary;    Social beings;   

DOI  :  10.1515/jso-2014-0037

来源: De Gruyter

【 摘 要 】

The aim of this article is to show that human persons belong, ontologically, in social ontology. After setting out my views on ontology, I turn to persons and argue that they have first-person perspectives in two stages (rudimentary and robust) essentially. Then I argue that the robust stage of the first-person persective is social, in that it requires a language, and languages require linguistic communities. Then I extend the argument to cover the rudimentary stage of the first-person perspective as well. I conclude by enumerating ways in which human persons differ from nonhuman animals.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC-ND