Personhood
- Created by: Joseph Timoney-Smith
- Created on: 21-03-14 09:05
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- Personhood
- Is the quality or condition of being an individual person
- Jobs
- Autonomy is self-identity
- Behaviours
- Language
- Evolutionary Theory
- Was an incorrect interpretation of race and ensured those of different skin colour were seen as inferior
- They were seen as "savages" who had not yet caught up in the evolutionary scale
- Justified the actions of colonisers which lead to them having no rights and being less of a person
- Women and children
- Women had very little rights and thus their status was lower than men
- Children had lower status and this were not a complete person until they reached adulthood
- Outsiders or those without a shared identity as the people around them will never, in their eyes, be seen as a person
- Theories on personhood
- Bourdieu found how we create our persnhood depends on our shared experiences and the society we live in or come from (Habitus)
- Morris found that we create our personhood from our experiences alone
- Western concept of personhood
- Today
- We individualist and have philosophical thought
- Philosophical means there is caste system, no predetermined autonomy, the body and mind are not one and we are egotistic
- We concentrate on bettering ourselves and not our family or community
- We individualist and have philosophical thought
- Before "Enlightenment"
- The church ruled and so it told us what to believe and told us not to question
- In the 18th century, scientific study and questioning lead to "truth"
- Discovered the mind - to reason and have rational thought, morals and language
- Today
- Traditional and Eastern concept of personhood
- They are collectivists and have relational thought
- Relational means there is a caste system, they is a predetermined autonomy and the mind and the body are one
- They concentrate on bettering their family or community, others before themselves
- They are collectivists and have relational thought
- Is the quality or condition of being an individual person
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