Volume 62, Issue 4, December 2022
Sebastian Rehnman
Pages 443-456
https://doi.org/10.5840/ipq2023913212
Why Do We Care Especially About Human Health?
This paper argues that we care especially about human health because of what we are and because of how we function properly. First, an argument is made against a mechanistic and for a holistic account of human nature. Second, it is argued that humans function properly when they are disposed to deliberate and decide easily and accurately about the means of health, deem that unrestraint pleasure hinders health as well as that combated disease furthers health, and judge it right to will what health others are due.