File #2356: "2018_Book_PersonhoodBeyondHumanism.pdf"

1|Contents|6
1|1 Introduction|8
2|References|12
1|2 What Is Legal Personhood?|13
2|2.1 The Concept of Personhood in Law|13
2|2.2 Natural and Legal Persons|15
2|2.3 Active and Passive Capacity of a Subject of Law|17
2|2.4 The Conventional Character of Legal Subjecthood|23
2|References|29
1|3 On Juridical Humanism: The Anthropocentrism of the Legal Approach to Personhood and Its Philosophical Assumptions|31
2|3.1 The Philosophical Underpinnings of the Legal Order|31
2|3.2 Humanism and the Dignity of the Human Being|33
2|3.3 Moral and Pragmatic Reasons for the Conferral of Personhood|37
2|3.4 Three Conceptual Levels of Personhood in Law|41
2|3.5 Old and New Problems|44
2|References|48
1|4 The Decline of Juridical Humanism|50
2|4.1 The Fall of Cartesian Dualism|50
2|4.2 Chimeras and Hybrids—Who Counts as a Human Being?|61
2|4.3 The Return of the Ship of Theseus Paradox|68
2|4.4 A Generalised Turing Test|73
2|4.5 Quo Vadis?|82
2|References|83
1|5 Neminem Laedere: Looking for a Way Out|85
2|5.1 After Humanism|85
2|5.2 Against Gaius|99
2|5.3 Against the Humanist Exceptionalism|103
2|5.4 Inclusive Humanism and Modest (Minimized) Speciesism|106
2|References|112
1|Bibliography|114