What Is The Human Person? | Prof. Jennifer Frey

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🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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This lecture was given 21 October 2019 to the DC Young Adults Chapter.

Jennifer A. Frey received her BA from Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana in 2000, and her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 2012. In 2013 she was Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago prior to taking up her current appointment as Assistant Professor in the Philosophy department at the University of South Carolina. Jennifer's research interests lie at the intersection of virtue ethics and action theory. She has publications in The Journal of the History of Philosophy, The Journal of Analytic Philosophy, and in several edited volumes. She is the recipient of several grants, including coa 2.1 million dollar project awarded by the John Templeton Foundation, titled "Virtue, Happiness, and Meaning in Life." She is currently at work on three separate book projects.

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0:00.0	The title of my talk is what is the human person.
0:04.1	But when Father Gregory asked me to give this talk, he said, I want you to explain what philosophical anthropology is.
0:11.2	So that's what I'm going to try to do.
0:13.3	But first, I guess I want to give a content warning or a trigger warning or something.
0:18.0	And that is just to let you know that for the entire evening,
0:21.2	I'm going to call us all men, and you're just going to have to get over it.
0:25.8	If it really irritates you, then every time I say man in your head,
0:31.2	you can just say to yourself, Anthropos, and that.
0:36.0	Right.
0:36.5	So when I use the word man, I mean the sense of the Greek word,
0:41.3	Anthropos, which is an androgynous or a genderless term.
0:46.3	We would say human now, but this has kind of clinical connotations that I don't want.
0:52.3	So I'm just going to call us all men. Okay. And I'm going to
0:57.0	start the talk by just making some bold claims. And then I'll argue for these claims or try
1:03.8	to convince you that these claims are true. But first, the question, what is man, is a properly
1:10.5	philosophical question. That's my first bold claim.
1:14.2	What do I mean by that? I mean that the question presents itself to us, to us men, in a philosophical
1:21.0	mode. Now, obviously, there are many sciences that can and do study man.
1:28.3	There's biology, there's anthropology, anthropology,
1:32.3	there's psychology, there's even theology, which is a science.
1:37.3	But these sciences all presuppose that there's a topic of study.
1:45.0	And what I want to suggest is that topic is properly philosophical.
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