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Philosophising about the concept of a human being is fiendishly difficult. Part of the difficulty lies in this very way of talking: in talk about the concept of a human being. Yet, we are not going to get very far in moral philosophy without reflecting on human beings and the lives they lead. But what kind of reflection is this? What difficulties stand in the way of it?
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Cora Diamond, ‘Losing Your Concepts’, Ethics, Jan. 1988.
Iris Murdoch, ‘Against Dryness: A Polemical Sketch’ in Revisions, ed. Stanley Hauerwas and Alasdair MacIntyre (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983), p. 46.
Alasdair Maclntyre, After Virtue (London: Duckworth, 1981);
Stanley Cavell, The Claim of Reason (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1979).
John Berger, author, and Jean Hohr, photographer, A Fortunate Man (New York: Pantheon Books, 1982), pp. 98–9.
Simone Weil, ‘Human Personality’ in Selected Essays 1934–43, ed. Richard Rees (London: Oxford University Press, 1962), p. 18. Quoted by Diamond on p. 270.
Marion Montgomery, Why Flannery O’Connor Stayed Home, Vol. I of The Prophetic Poet and the Spirit of the Age (La Salle, Illinois: Sherwood Sugden and Company, 1981), pp. 137–8.
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Phillips, D.Z. (1992). Philosophy and the Heterogeneity of the Human. In: Interventions in Ethics. Swansea Studies in Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11539-6_18
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