What Is a Human?: What the Answers Mean for Human Rights

by John H. Evans III

What is a human? Are humans those with human DNA, those in possession of traits like rationality, or those made in the image of God? The debate over what makes human beings unique has raged for centuries. Many think that if society accepts the wrong definition of what it is to be human, people will look at their neighbor as more of an animal, object, or machine-making maltreatment more likely. In the longest running claim, for over 150 years critics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190608072
• ISBN13: 9780190608071
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"