Animalism (philosophy)
- Not to be confused with the fictional philosophy from Animal Farm, or with Animism.
In philosophy, animalism is a theory about personal identity according to which personal identity is a biological property of human beings, just as it is for other animals.[1] Animalism is not a theory about personhood, that is, a theory about what it means to be a person. An animalist could hold that robots or angels were persons without that contradicting his animalism.[2]
According to the German philosopher W. Sombart, "Animalism", in opposition to "Hominism", contains every ideology that gives up the notion of humans possessing a life-form of their own, and understands them as a part of nature, as an animal species.[3]
The concept of animalism is among interests of philosophers Eric T. Olson and David Wiggins.[4][5]
Notes
- ^ Baker, Lynne Rudder. 'When Does a Person Begin?', in Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, and Jeffrey Paul (eds.), Personal Identity, Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 39.
- ^ Eric T. Olson (2007) What are we?: a study in personal ontology, Oxford University Press, section 2.1.
- ^ (Historisches Wörterbuch der philosophie, 1971 Historical Dictionary of Philosophy )
- ^ Olson, Eric T. What are we?: a study in personal ontology, Oxford University Press, 2007.
- ^ Brian Garrett, Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness. Routledge, 1998. 137 pages. ISBN 0-415-16573-3
References
- Baker, Lynne Rudder. 'When Does a Person Begin?', in Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, and Jeffrey Paul (eds.), Personal Identity, Cambridge University Press, 2005
- Blatti, Stephan, "Animalism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), forthcoming URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2014/entries/animalism/>.
- Olson, Eric T. What are we?: a study in personal ontology, Oxford University Press, 2007.
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