What It Means to Be Human
What It Means to Be Human One of the Wall Street Journal's Top Ten Books of the YearA leading expert on public bioethics advocates for a new conception of human identity in American law and…
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What It Means to Be Human
One of the Wall Street Journal's Top Ten Books of the YearA leading expert on public bioethics advocates for a new conception of human identity in American law and policy.The natural limits of the human body make us vulnerable and therefore dependent, throughout our lives, on others. As legal scholar O. 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.
Under such circumstances, the neediest must rely on charitable care. 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. When it is not forthcoming, law and policy cannot adequately respond.What It Means to Be Human
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