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Article: Dueling dualism.(Body: Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics)(Book review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
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- November 1, 2008
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BODY--SELF DUALISM IN CONTEMPORARY ETHICS AND POLITICS
by PATRICK LEE AND ROBERT P. GEORGE
Cambridge University Press, 222 pages, $80
LIKE IT OR NOT, the dominant mode of philosophical reflection in the English-speaking world is Anglo-American analytical philosophy. Although this is sometimes characterized as a method rather than as a set of doctrines, it has its own prevailing orthodoxies--including the view that we are entirely material objects, exclusively the products of a series of physical processes reaching back into cosmic history. In questions of value and conduct, the prevailing analytical orthodoxy is that ethics is about promoting or ...