What It Means to Be Human
The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics
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O. Carter Snead
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The natural limits of the human body make us vulnerable and therefore dependent, throughout our lives, on others. Yet American law and policy disregard these stubborn facts, with statutes and judicial decisions that presume people to be autonomous, defined by their capacity to choose. As legal scholar O. Carter Snead points out, this individualistic ideology captures important truths about human freedom, but it also means that we have no obligations to each other unless we actively, voluntarily embrace them.
What It Means to Be Human makes the case for a new paradigm, one that better represents the gifts and challenges of being human. Inspired by the insights of Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor, Snead proposes a vision of human identity and flourishing that supports those who are profoundly vulnerable and dependent-children, the disabled, and the elderly. To show how such a vision would affect law and policy, he addresses three complex issues in bioethics: abortion, assisted reproductive technology, and end-of-life decisions. He concludes that, if the law is built on premises that reflect the fully lived reality of life, it will provide support for the vulnerable, including the unborn, mothers, families, and those nearing the end of their lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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extremely insightful. awful to get through.
- De Dave en 05-09-18
De: George Lakoff
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The Case for Life
- Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture
- De: Scott Klusendorf
- Narrado por: David Cochran Heath
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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Pro-life Christians, take heart: the pro-life message can compete in the marketplace of ideas - provided Christians properly understand and articulate that message. Too many Christians do not understand the essential truths of the pro-life position, making it difficult for them to articulate a biblical worldview on issues like abortion, cloning, and embryo research. The Case for Life provides intellectual grounding for the pro-life convictions that most evangelicals hold.
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The Case for Life
- De R.J. Mansfield en 11-26-23
De: Scott Klusendorf
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Primates and Philosophers
- How Morality Evolved
- De: Frans de Waal
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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"It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality.In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, emphasizing our "selfish" genes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Having Just Read...
- De Douglas en 12-14-13
De: Frans de Waal
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The Science of Good and Evil
- Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
- De: Michael Shermer
- Duración: 2 h y 21 m
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In The Science of Good and Evil, psychologist and science historian Michael Shermer explores how humans evolved from social primates into moral primates, how and why morality motivates the human animal, and how the foundation of moral principles can be built upon empirical evidence. Along the way he explains the implications of scientific findings for fate and free will, the existence of pure good and pure evil, and the development of early moral sentiments among the first humans.
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Read by author
- De Gregory A. Townsend en 04-16-23
De: Michael Shermer
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Push Back
- Guilt in the Age of Natural Parenting
- De: Amy Tuteur
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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A Harvard-trained obstetrician-gynecologist, a prominent blogger, and author of the classic How Your Baby Is Born delivers a timely, important, and sure to be headline-making exposé that shines a light on the natural parenting movement and the multimillion-dollar industry behind it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A perspective all birth workers should examine
- De HeatherW en 10-25-19
De: Amy Tuteur
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The God Argument
- The Case Against Religion and for Humanism
- De: A. C. Grayling
- Narrado por: William Roberts
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
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What are the arguments for and against religion and religious belief - all of them - right across the range of reasons and motives that people have for being religious, and do they stand up to scrutiny? Can there be a clear, full statement of these arguments that once and for all will show what is at stake in this debate? Equally important: what is the alternative to religion as a view of the world and a foundation for morality?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Topic Made Mind Numbingly Dull
- De m.emery en 06-17-15
De: A. C. Grayling
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The Majesty of the Law
- Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice
- De: Sandra Day O'Connor
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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In this remarkable book, Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Supreme Court Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through history, people, ideas, and landmark cases, O’Connor sheds new light on the basics, exploring through personal observation the evolution of the Court and American democratic traditions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative and well-written
- De James en 07-11-05
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Why Trust Science?
- The University Center for Human Values, Book 1
- De: Naomi Oreskes
- Narrado por: John Chancer, Kelly Burke, Kerry Shale, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own politicians don't? In this landmark book, Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength - and the greatest reason we can trust it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect Production of an Excellent Work
- De Andrew Mazibrada en 01-15-20
De: Naomi Oreskes
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Our Political Nature
- The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us
- De: Avi Tuschman
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 17 h y 42 m
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Our Political Nature is the first book to reveal the hidden roots of our most deeply held moral values. It shows how political orientations across space and time arise from three clusters of measurable personality traits. These clusters entail opposing attitudes toward tribalism, inequality, and differing perceptions of human nature. Together, these traits are by far the most powerful cause of left-right voting, even leading people to regularly vote against their economic interests.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Trivial Version of Haidt's "The Righteous Mind"
- De Curt Doolittle en 10-29-13
De: Avi Tuschman
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My Own Words
- De: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Hartnett, Wendy W. Williams
- Narrado por: Linda Lavin
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993 - a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture. My Own Words is a selection of writings and speeches by Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Spectacularly Dry
- De CMP en 07-27-18
De: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, y otros
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The Supremes' Greatest Hits, 2nd Revised & Updated Edition
- The 44 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life
- De: Michael G. Trachtman
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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The Supreme Court's rulings have shaped American life and justice and allowed Americans to retain basic freedoms such as privacy, free speech, and the right to a fair trial. This revised and updated edition of Michael G. Trachtman's riveting work includes 10 important cases from 2010 to 2015.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nice review overall.
- De "freeindeed4ever" en 02-10-20
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The Voice of Reason
- Essays in Objectivist Thought
- De: Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 15 h y 55 m
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In the years between her first public lecture in 1961 and her last in 1981, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces are gathered together in book form for the first time. Written in the last decades of Rand's life, they reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity. With them are five essays by Leonard Peikoff, Rand's longtime associate and literary executor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Explains Everything Of Today
- De L. Nicholson en 11-20-15
De: Ayn Rand, y otros
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Making Our Democracy Work
- A Judge’s View
- De: Justice Stephen Breyer
- Narrado por: Luis Moreno
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer delivers an impassioned argument for the proper role of America’s highest judicial body. Examining historic and contemporary decisions by the Court, Breyer highlights the rulings that have bolstered public confidence as well as the missteps that have triggered distrust. What emerges is a unique approach - certain to be admired for years to come - to interpreting the Constitution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Timely
- De Don en 05-17-17
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Big Gods
- How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict
- De: Ara Norenzayan
- Narrado por: Paul Nixon
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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How did human societies scale up from small, tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous, cooperative societies of today - even though anonymity is the enemy of cooperation? How did organized religions with "Big Gods" - the great monotheistic and polytheistic faiths - spread to colonize most minds in the world? In Big Gods, Ara Norenzayan makes the surprising and provocative argument that these fundamental puzzles about the origins of civilization are one and the same, and answer each other.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De paro en 02-27-24
De: Ara Norenzayan
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We the People
- A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century
- De: Erwin Chemerinsky
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
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From gun control to reproductive health, a conservative Supreme Court will reshape the lives of all Americans for decades to come. The time to develop and defend a progressive vision of the US Constitution that protects the rights of all people is now.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Hypocritical evaluation of the constitution
- De surya en 03-23-19
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HATE
- Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship
- De: Nadine Strossen
- Narrado por: Nadine Strossen, Angelo Di Loreto
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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HATE dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about "hate speech vs. free speech", showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony. We hear too many incorrect assertions that "hate speech" - which has no generally accepted definition - is either absolutely unprotected or absolutely protected from censorship. Rather, US law allows government to punish hateful or discriminatory speech in specific contexts when it directly causes imminent serious harm.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Important Message But Repetitive Execution
- De ReaderTeacher en 08-19-18
De: Nadine Strossen
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre What It Means to Be Human
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- Homestead Dad
- 10-15-24
Outstanding Primer on Bioethics
I very much enjoyed this book. I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in bioethics.
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- NoteKris
- 06-28-23
Excellent book, dry reader
This is an excellent vision of a society in which we love and care for one another rather than the current focus on what we can get out of one another and our institutions.
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- mary
- 11-27-22
Screed
I was hoping by reading this, I would be given a deeper understanding of the ethical considerations of law related to abortion. However, I was surprised when the author departed from moral reasoning and made a leap to ideology. Upon discovering that the author is a professor at Notre Dame and a friend of Amy Coney Bryant, his use of embodiment to reify the relationship between embryo and uterus as “mother and child” made sense.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-07-23
Brilliant! Just reas!
Very insightful and learned so much! There is no easy answer for these complex human issues and we will continue to look for the right answer if there is one.
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