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Review Esssay: What Is Human?

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John H. Evans, What Is a Human? What the Answers Mean for Human Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 261.
Samatha Frost, Biocultural Creatures: Toward a New Theory of the Human. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. Pp. 203.
David Walsh, Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. Pp. 299.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2018

Catherine H. Zuckert
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John Evans announces the question to which all three of these books respond in his title: What is a human? And in the subtitle, he indicates the reason many people today are concerned about the answers offered to that question: what the different answers mean for human rights. As the debates about the fate of a fetus or comatose patient show, definitions of what is human can determine who lives or dies.

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The Review of Politics , Volume 80 , Special Issue 2: Honoring Catherine H. Zuckert , Spring 2018 , pp. 343 - 356
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 2018 

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1 See Altamirano, Adriana Alfaro, “Max Scheler and Adam Smith on Sympathy,” Review of Politics 79, no. 3 (Summer 2017): 365–87CrossRefGoogle Scholar.