Personhood Beyond Humanism

Animals, Chimeras, Autonomous Agents and the Law

Tomasz Pietrzykowski (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

VI, 115 Seiten

2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-78880-7 (ISBN)

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This book explores the legal conception of personhood in the context of contemporary challenges, such as the status of non-human animals, human-animal biological mixtures, cyborgisation of the human body, or developing technologies based on artificial autonomic agents. It reveals the humanistic assumptions underlying the legal approach to personhood and examines the extent to which they are undermined by current and imminent scientific and technological advances. Further, the book outlines an original conception of non-personal subjecthood so as to provide adequate normative solutions for the problematic status of sentient animals and other kinds of entities. Arguably, non-personal subjects of law should be regarded as holding one right, and only one right - the right to be taken into account.

Introduction.- What is Legal Personhood?.- On Juridical Humanism: The Anthropocentrism of the Legal Approach to Personhood and its Philosophical Assumptions.- The Decline of Juridical Humanism.- Neminem Laedere: Looking for a Way Out.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.06.2018
Reihe/Serie	SpringerBriefs in Law
Zusatzinfo	VI, 115 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Original-Titel	Ludzkie, niezbyt ludzkie. Esej o podmiotowosci prawnej o wyzwaniach XXI wieku.
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	201 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte	Concept of paradigm • Human beings • Hybrids • Legal Personhood • Legal personification • Legal persons • natural persons • Non-human beings • Personhood in law
ISBN-10	3-319-78880-9 / 3319788809
ISBN-13	978-3-319-78880-7 / 9783319788807
Zustand	Neuware