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What We Talk About When We Talk About “Personhood”: A Critical Review of Menkti’s Moral Man
What We Talk About When We Talk About “Personhood”: A Critical Review of Menkti’s Moral Man

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In the recently published Menkiti’s Moral Man, Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe defends the late Ifeanyi Menkiti’s communitarian theory of personhood. According to this theory, “A person is a person because of other persons” (1) or, as Menkiti is quoted as saying, . . .

In the recently published Menkiti’s Moral Man, Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe defends the late Ifeanyi Menkiti’s communitarian theory of personhood. According to this theory, “A person is a person because of other persons” (1) or, as Menkiti is quoted as saying, “I am because we are, and since we are, therefore I am” (2). I come […]

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