Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. www.sciencefocus.com › are-humans-animalsAre humans animals? - BBC Science Focus Magazine

   www.sciencefocus.com › are-humans-animals

   Of course, humans are animals! We’re composed of cells with genetic material, and we move around, seeking energy to feed our bodies, pooping it out again as waste.

2. www.psychologytoday.com › us › blogAnimals Have Personalities: Does That Make Them “Persons?”

   www.psychologytoday.com › us › blog

   • Cached

   Jun 21, 2021 · Animal rights legal scholars such as Steven Wise argues that creatures such great apes and elephants are persons. And a 2013 op-ed in The New York Times by canine researcher Gregory Bern had...

3. academic.oup.com › edited-volume › 3854612 Are Nonhuman Animals Persons? - Oxford Academic

   academic.oup.com › edited-volume › 38546

   • Cached

   This article considers the concept of persons as the central issue in moral status debates. It finds questions about whether members of one or more nonhuman species of animals are persons among the most difficult philosophical questions we face today.

4. plato.stanford.edu › entries › moral-animalThe Moral Status of Animals - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

   plato.stanford.edu › entries › moral-animal

   Jul 1, 2003 · In the courts, all humans and some corporations are considered persons in the legal sense. But all animals, infants and adults, are not legal persons, but rather, under the law they are considered property. There have been a few attempts to change the legal status of some nonhuman animals from property to persons.

5. academic.oup.com › edited-volume › 3854611 Human Animals and Nonhuman Persons - Oxford Academic

   academic.oup.com › edited-volume › 38546

   • Cached

   This article considers whether a nonhuman animal or any other entity could, under certain specifiable conditions, be a person. It approaches this subject through personhood theory and asks why certain attributes are thought so important to being a person.

6. academic.oup.com › book › 32186Animals as Persons: The Very Idea - Oxford Academic

   academic.oup.com › book › 32186

   • Cached

   Far from being contrary to common sense, the idea that some nonhuman animals can be persons conforms to a certain prominent strand in common sense. Three conceptions of personhood are distinguished: legal, moral, and metaphysical. The subject of this book is the metaphysical sense of person.

7. People also ask

   Are animals a person?

   • In moral terms, if animals are persons then they are entitled to the same moral consideration as human persons, the most salient aspect of which is the prima facie right not to be killed, not to be deprived of the lives that they value. Many animals are clearly not persons on this account: paramecia and nematodes, for example.

   Human Animals and Nonhuman Persons | Oxford Academic

   academic.oup.com/edited-volume/38546/chapter/333823439

   See all results for this question

   Are humans animals?

   • So, are we animals? For many people today that sounds like a silly question. Of course, humans are animals! We’re composed of cells with genetic material, and we move around, seeking energy to feed our bodies, pooping it out again as waste.

   Are humans animals? - BBC Science Focus Magazine

   www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/are-humans-animals

   See all results for this question

   Should nonhuman animals be persons?

   • Allowing that some nonhuman animals may be persons and that some human animals may not be persons does not commit us to a position that ignores the moral obligations we may have toward the latter as well as toward other nonperson animals. We are not arguing that personhood is the sole ground for moral standing.

   Human Animals and Nonhuman Persons | Oxford Academic

   academic.oup.com/edited-volume/38546/chapter/333823439

   See all results for this question

   Are humans different from other animals?

   • In contrast to this view, an increasing number of philosophers have argued that while humans are different in a variety of ways from each other and other animals, these differences do not provide a philosophical defense for denying non-human animals moral consideration.

   The Moral Status of Animals - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

   plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-animal/

   See all results for this question

   Do animals have personalities?

   • Research on animal personalities has exploded over the past two decades, from zero in 1990 to over 900 in 2020. Personality differences exist in species ranging from insects to great apes. There are excellent arguments for granting basic rights to some nonhuman species, but having a personality is not one of them.

   Animals Have Personalities: Does That Make Them “Persons?”

   www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animals-and-us/202106/animals-have-personalities-does-make-them-persons

   See all results for this question

   Is a human being a person?

   • The fact that the human being can have the representation “I” raises him infinitely above all the other beings on earth. By this he is a person….that is, a being altogether different in rank and dignity from things, such as irrational animals, with which one may deal and dispose at one’s discretion. (Kant 2010: 239 [Ak 7: 127])

   The Moral Status of Animals - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

   plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-animal/

   See all results for this question

8. www.psychologytoday.com › intl › blogAnimals as Persons: Can We Scale Intelligence or Sentience?

   www.psychologytoday.com › intl › blog

   • Cached

   Jul 15, 2016 · Philosophers disagree on exactly what it would take for an animal to qualify as a person. Kristin Andrews at York University in Toronto, Canada, suggests searching for the six attributes...