When a human being relates to an individual nonhuman being as an anonymous object, rather than as a being with its own subjectivity, it is the human, and not the other animal, who relinquishes personhood.


p. 118 - Reflections (1999)

Barbara Smuts Quotes

When a human being relates to an individual nonhuman being as an anonymous object, rather than as a being with its own subjectivity, it is the human, ...

When a human being relates to an individual nonhuman being as an anonymous object, rather than as a being with its own subjectivity, it is the human, ...

When a human being relates to an individual nonhuman being as an anonymous object, rather than as a being with its own subjectivity, it is the human, ...

When a human being relates to an individual nonhuman being as an anonymous object, rather than as a being with its own subjectivity, it is the human, ...