https://youtu.be/GxM9BZeRrUI
VIDEO INTRO: To philosophers, ‘personhood’ is a technical term. ‘Person’ doesn’t equal ‘human.’
“Human” is a biological term – you’re human if you have human DNA. That’s it.
But ‘person’ is a moral term.
For a philosopher, persons are beings who are part of our moral community. They deserve moral consideration.
This distinction is really useful, but it kinda complicates things. Because there might be non-humans that we think deserve moral consideration. And there might be some humans who don’t.
But the determination of who’s a person and who’s not, is tricky. And the slipperiness of what constitutes a person is at the core of almost every major social debate issue you can think of. [Like abortion, animal rights, etc]
Philosophers have tried to assess what constitutes personhood with a variety of different criteria, including genetic, cognitive, social, sentience, and the gradient theory....
Personhood: Crash Course Philosophy #21
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VIDEO INTRO: To philosophers, ‘personhood’ is a technical term. ‘Person’ doesn’t equal ‘human.’
“Human” is a biological term – you’re human if you have human DNA. That’s it.
But ‘person’ is a moral term.
For a philosopher, persons are beings who are part of our moral community. They deserve moral consideration.
This distinction is really useful, but it kinda complicates things. Because there might be non-humans that we think deserve moral consideration. And there might be some humans who don’t.
But the determination of who’s a person and who’s not, is tricky. And the slipperiness of what constitutes a person is at the core of almost every major social debate issue you can think of. [Like abortion, animal rights, etc]
Philosophers have tried to assess what constitutes personhood with a variety of different criteria, including genetic, cognitive, social, sentience, and the gradient theory....
Personhood: Crash Course Philosophy #21