Human Persons as Social Entities

The aim of this article is to show that human persons belong, ontologically, in social ontology. After setting out my views on ontology, I turn to persons and argue that they have first-person perspectives in two stages (rudimentary and robust) essentially. Then I argue that the robust stage of the...

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Main Author:	Baker Lynne Rudder
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	De Gruyter 2015-01-01
Series:	Journal of Social Ontology
Subjects:	first-person perspective persons robust rudimentary social beings
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2014-0037

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spelling	doaj-43b469d36934427eacada49b16bd6e6c2021-09-06T19:40:53ZengDe GruyterJournal of Social Ontology2196-96552196-96632015-01-0111778710.1515/jso-2014-0037jso-2014-0037Human Persons as Social EntitiesBaker Lynne Rudder0University of Massachusetts Amherst, Philosophy 352 Bartlett Hall, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA, e-mail: lrbaker@philos.umass.eduThe aim of this article is to show that human persons belong, ontologically, in social ontology. After setting out my views on ontology, I turn to persons and argue that they have first-person perspectives in two stages (rudimentary and robust) essentially. Then I argue that the robust stage of the first-person persective is social, in that it requires a language, and languages require linguistic communities. Then I extend the argument to cover the rudimentary stage of the first-person perspective as well. I conclude by enumerating ways in which human persons differ from nonhuman animals.https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2014-0037first-person perspectivepersonsrobustrudimentarysocial beings
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description	The aim of this article is to show that human persons belong, ontologically, in social ontology. After setting out my views on ontology, I turn to persons and argue that they have first-person perspectives in two stages (rudimentary and robust) essentially. Then I argue that the robust stage of the first-person persective is social, in that it requires a language, and languages require linguistic communities. Then I extend the argument to cover the rudimentary stage of the first-person perspective as well. I conclude by enumerating ways in which human persons differ from nonhuman animals.
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Human Persons as Social Entities

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