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Andrews, Kristin; Comstock, George C.; Crozier, G.K.D.; Donaldson, Sue; Fenton, Andy; John, Tyler M.; Johnson, L. Syd M; Jones, Robert C.; Kymlicka, Will; Meynell, Letitia; Nobis, Nathan; Peña‐Guzmán, David M.; Sebo, Jeff

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“…So what of personhood beyond the human? The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) in the US is trying to get legal status for chimps held in captivity in America and has brought a number of cases to court, but so far their claims have been denied by judges on the grounds that chimps are not persons (Andrews et al, 2019: 1). Following the traditional – though increasingly problematic – legal distinction between persons and things (Esposito, 2015), in US law, every entity is either a ‘person’ or a ‘thing’ – and chimps are deemed to be ‘things’ and so not eligible for habeas corpus.…”

Section: Part Two: Shades Of Personhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Against Posthumanism: Notes towards an Ethopolitics of Personhood

Osborne

Rose

2023

Theory, Culture & Society

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Are we humans destined to become ‘posthuman’? In this paper, we question the claims of posthumanism, accepting some of its broader insights whilst proposing a more empirically and ethically appropriate ‘vitalist’ response. We argue that despite recent changes in styles of thought that question the uniqueness of ‘the human’, and despite novel technological developments for augmenting human bodies, we remain – fundamentally – persons. Humans, as persons, are constitutively embedded in and scaffolded by the material, social, semantic and cultural niches they have constructed for themselves. An ‘ethopolitical’ response to our present that recognizes this fact not only requires us to engage with the consequences of making lives in the unequal niches that restrict and stunt the personhood of so many human beings at present, but also requires us to broaden the bandwidth of those who are recognized fully as persons. In our conclusion we briefly develop the theme that this emphasis on personhood can be seen as a vitalist – rather than a humanist – stance.

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Section: Part Two: Shades Of Personhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%