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Legal Personhood and Moral Agency: A Philosophical Analysis of Rights, Duties, and Identity

International Journal of Applied Research and Sustainable Sciences
Legal personhood has long been pegged on the idea of human rationality and moral agency. But over the past decades, it has been applied to corporations, artificial intelligence, and even aspects of nature, provoking essential philosophical and ethical dilemmas.
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Personhood and Bioethics: An Eastern Perspective [PDF]

International Journal of Orthodox Theology, 2015
The secular and theological prominence of the word “person” in bioethics creates ambiguity. This is perceptible in the conclusions of the scholars who asses the cognitive abilities of a human to define whether that human is a person or not.
Daniel M. Varghese
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Memory Erasure, and the Problem of Personal Identity

Journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy, 2020
Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman’s 2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which celebrated its fifteenth anniversary in 2019, is an extended thought experiment on the nature of memory, minds, and persons.
Giorgina Samira Paiella
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Obscuring Our Sense of Morality: Barry Hallen’s Yoruba Moral Epistemology and the Problem of Character Indeterminacy

The Thinker
Barry Hallen’s critical engagements with the African (Yoruba) philosophical scholarship have earned him a place among African intellectual giants of the 20th century. Among his diverse contributions to African philosophical discourse is his Yoruba moral
Babalola J. Balogun, Aderonke A. Ajiboro
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The Confucian Conception of Self: Collectivist or Relational?

Asian Studies
In this paper, I clarify the Confucian conception of self by distinguishing it from com­mon misrepresentations, most notably its conflation with collectivism, as critiqued by Jana Rošker.
Thomas Moore
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Nature through the lens of the law: from sustainable development to legal personhood. A philosophical-legal sketch

, 2021
The Anthropocene narrative highlights that human activities are the main cause of climate changes and environmental degradation. To limit this disaster interventions can be made at different levels, and the legal one is part of the available options.
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An Exposition of Augustine\u27s Theodicy: From Its Influences to Its Modern Application [PDF]

, 2011
This paper delineates the thrust of Augustine\u27s theodicy against the broader background of his Christian Neoplatonic outlook. We examine Augustine\u27s initial Manichean influences and see how these beliefs carry over to his mature thought, which is ...
Gray, Kevin J.
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Early and Later Abortions: Ethics and Law [PDF]

, 2019
Most abortions occur early in pregnancy. I argue that these abortions, and so most abortions, are not morally wrong and that the best arguments given to think that these abortions are wrong are weak.
Nobis, Nathan
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Invoking Embryonic Development and the Notion of Personhood to Justify Early Abortion: A Curious Argument [PDF]

, 2003
McCarthy, Jeremiah J.
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Toward a Reconstruction of Self

Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2019
In this paper, I outline the cumulative network model of the self. This model articulates the self as relational, recognizing social relations as constitutive of the self.
Kathleen Wallace
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