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The subject of personal identity is one of the most central and most contested and exciting in philosophy. Ever since Locke, psychological and bodily criteria have vied with one another in conflicting accounts of personal identity. Carol Rovane argues that, as things stand, the debate is unresolvable since both sides hold coherent positions that our common sense will embrace. Our very common sense, she maintains, is conflicted; so any resolution to the debate is bound to be revisionary. She boldly offers such a revisionary theory of personal identity by first inquiring into the nature of persons.Rovane begins with a premise about the distinctive ethical nature of persons to which all substantive ethical doctrines, ranging from Kantian to egoist, can subscribe. From this starting point, she derives two startling metaphysical possibilities: there could be group persons composed of many human beings and multiple persons within a single human being. Her conclusion supports Locke's distinction between persons and human beings, but on altogether new grounds. These grounds lie in her radically normative analysis of the condition of personal identity, as the condition in which a certain normative commitment arises, namely, the commitment to achieve overall rational unity within a rational point of view. It is by virtue of this normative commitment that individual agents can engage one another specifically as persons, and possess the distinctive ethical status of persons.

Subject (Philosophy) --- Self (Philosophy) --- Agent (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Agency (Philosophy) --- Agents --- Person (Philosophy) --- Act (Philosophy)

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In this commentary on the future direction of social theory and its application, Barry Barnes argues that social theory has spent too long focusing on individual freedom, and neglecting the social context in which all individual actions are situated.

Responsibility. --- Agent (Philosophy) --- Sociology --- Agency (Philosophy) --- Agents --- Person (Philosophy) --- Act (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Accountability --- Moral responsibility --- Obligation --- Ethics --- Supererogation --- Philosophy.

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Many theorists have addressed a central concern of current political theory by contending that the dithering intellectualism of left politics prevents genuine political action. Arguments and Fists confronts this concern by refuting these arguments, and reconciling philosophical debates with the realities of current activism. By looking at theorists such as Montesquieu, Kant, Rousseau, the book contradicts current academic debates and also goes against contemporary theory's image of the liberal political agent as a narrowly rational abstraction. Mika LaVaque-Manty also argues that progressiv

Liberalism. --- Agent (Philosophy) --- Agency (Philosophy) --- Agents --- Person (Philosophy) --- Act (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Political science --- Social sciences

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This study argues for the essential link between objectivity and personhood. How personhood is understood dramatically affects social formations and how individuals are treated.

Agent (Philosophy). --- Philosophy, Modern -- 21st century. --- Agent (Philosophy) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Philosophy & Religion --- Philosophy --- Modern philosophy --- Agency (Philosophy) --- Agents --- Person (Philosophy) --- Act (Philosophy)

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Agent (Philosophy) --- Organizational change. --- Organizational effectiveness. --- Management --- Organization --- Change, Organizational --- Organization development --- Organizational development --- Organizational innovation --- Manpower planning --- Agency (Philosophy) --- Agents --- Person (Philosophy) --- Act (Philosophy) --- Philosophy