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The Traditional African Perception of a Person: Some Implications for Bioethics
Author(s) -
TANGWA GODFREY B.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3527887
Subject(s) - bioethics , perception , psychology , social psychology , political science , law , neuroscience
Western moral philosophy is driven by the attempt to sharply distinguish persons from the rest of the cosmos, and then to identify the ways in which persons must be treated. The traditional African approach is different on both counts.