1. Finish defining a person. What are your 5 criteria for "personhood"?
Some of your ideas here include: memory, personality, emotions, ability to breath, create ideas through opinions, having a soul, bi-pedal, biologically homo-sapiens-sapiens, having a will to live, mental capacity to think, interact with others, conscience (knowing right from wrong), potential to become human including a zygote and including the potential to get well again after brain death, to be concerned with the future, imagination, unique thoughts.
2. Continuum of personhood:
mammal - ape - pre-conception - zygote - embryo - fetus - late-term - newborn - toddler - child - teen - young adult - adult - retired - senior citizen - infirm - death - after death
3. Video from yesterday
4. Text reading:
Read pp. 133 - 139. Takes notes on the THEORIES and CRITERIA that each of these philosophers sets out.
John Locke
Daniel Dennett
Mary Anne Warren
Annette Baier
(Personal Identity)
Derek Parfit
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