Category: Personalism
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Souls and Murder
A guest post by Peter Lupu. Comments in blue by BV. If there are immortal souls, would murder be a grave moral breach? 1) Theists, like their atheist adversaries, consider murder a severe breach of morality. Unlike causing a minor physical injury to another or damaging or even completely destroying their home, car, or other belongings,…
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Why We Should Accept the Potentiality Principle
The idea behind the Potentiality Principle (PP) is that potential personhood confers a right to life. For present purposes we may define a person as anything that is sentient, rational, and self-aware. Actual persons have a right to life, a right not to be killed. Presumably we all accept the following Rights Principle: RP: All…
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Persons and the Moral Relevance of Their Capacities
Those who accept the following Rights Principle (RP) presumably also accept as a codicil thereto a Capacities Principle (CP): RP. All persons have a right to life. CP. All persons have a right to life even at times when they are not exercising any of the capacities whose exercise confers upon them the right to…