About the Book: Persons, Mind and Value
Persons, Mind and Value focuses on the link between persons andvalues: and as
values are linked with the mentality of thesubjects, relevant features of mind
have been brought tofocus.Philosophical accounts of personhood have often been
used forbuilding normative ethical theories and persons have usually beenthought
of as moral agents, responsible for their actions done withfreedom. Against the
backdrop of this, the authors have attemptedto delineate the concept of moral
personhood which, they argue, isbuilt on spirituality and moral commitment.
Although morality isnot entirely a matter of pure rationality and moral agency
requiresself-transcendence and spirituality, the book nonetheless bringsout a
stricter sense