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personhood

Can animals sin?

July 14, 2014 by Randal

For centuries, theologians and philosophers alike have maintained an absolute categorical distinction between human beings and other animals. According to this assumption human beings are moral agents who are capable of both moral virtue and moral vice. They are also linguistic agents who are capable of speech. Animals, by contrast, are neither moral nor linguistic. No […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: agency, chimpanzee, evolution, humanity, moral nature, morality, personhood

Death as whole body amputation

January 18, 2013 by Randal

The other day I was reading Antony Flew’s opening statement in a debate on the existence of God (back when Flew was an atheist) when I came across an interesting argument against substance dualism. Flew writes: “If persons really were creatures possessing bodies, rather than–as in fact we are–creatures who just essentially are members of […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Antony Flew, dualism, personhood

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