Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'Presentation of Self in Everyday Life' and 'A Defense of Abortion'

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10 ideas

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 2. Self as Social Construct
8044 Goffman sees the self as no more than a peg on which to hang roles we play [Goffman, by MacIntyre]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / a. Physicalism critique
3448 Do new ideas increase the weight of the brain? [Dance]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 3. Abortion
4059 It can't be murder for a mother to perform an abortion on herself to save her own life [Thomson]
4057 A newly fertilized ovum is no more a person than an acorn is an oak tree [Thomson]
4695 Maybe abortion can be justified despite the foetus having full human rights [Thomson, by Foot]
4696 The foetus is safe in the womb, so abortion initiates its death, with the mother as the agent. [Foot on Thomson]
4060 The right to life does not bestow the right to use someone else's body to support that life [Thomson]
4061 The right to life is not a right not to be killed, but not to be killed unjustly [Thomson]
4058 Is someone's right to life diminished if they were conceived by a rape? [Thomson]
4062 No one is morally required to make huge sacrifices to keep someone else alive for nine months [Thomson]