Categories: All - consciousness - morality - rights - animals

by Antti Kuusela 5 years ago

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Personhood

The concept of personhood encompasses various criteria and definitions, often centering on consciousness, agency, and moral responsibility. Differentiating between human and non-human entities, such as animals and machines, remains a crucial debate, raising questions about anthropocentrism and speciesism.

Personhood

Moral responsibility

Morality

Personhood

Who or what is a person?

Anthropocentrism and Speciesism
Versions of humans
Criminals
Clones
Babies
Mentally ill
Fetuses
Machines
Non-human animals

Definition and criteria

Necessary and sufficient properties
Consciousness
Potential consciousness
Descartes; soul and consciousness are the same
Responsiveness

Instincts

Awareness
Wakefulness
Self-consciousness

Language as a requirement for self-identification

It develops; we are not born with it Evolution, different species in different stages, different levels

Importance

Agency
Authentic life
Rights
Duties

Responsibility

History

Ethnicity
Children
Animals
Women
Slaves