If the definition of personhood is the presence of mind‚ will‚ and emotion‚ what results when those essential qualities are crushed by a brain-washing society? This was exactly the case in Jonas’s community. Founded on constant deception and manipulation‚ Sameness led the citizens of this society to forget. They forgot how to reason‚ how to be independent‚ how to feel and see beauty and pain. They were all asleep—asleep to the fact that while there may have been pain in the past‚ there was also pleasure
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Nam Vo EQ Class “The most important philosophical attributes of personhood are emotions and responsibility” Each person possesses distinct qualities from each other‚ which then explains why people make different decisions and act differently. In my opinion‚ the most important philosophical attributes of personhood are emotions and responsibility‚ because those are the two basic characteristics that often shape people’s behaviors and life outcomes. First of all‚ emotions can be defined as: “A
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Life History Theory: Why bigger brains for Primate and How it came to be? Introduction Complex behaviors and intelligence are the trademark of the primate order and this has been attributed in part to relative large brain to body mass ratio (Reader and Laland‚ 2002). Defining intelligence‚ however‚ is a highly problematic issue; an operational definition used points to the primary component of intelligence to flexible problem solving and the ability to cope with any difficult situations (Jerison
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conditions every area got its individual‚ non-repetitive look. This did not happen by itself - but everything‚ even the smallest flower‚ was created... by someone... And this work had lasted for ages. When the perfect one among the animals - the Primate came to life during the "evolution" with a sufficiently perfect body‚ then it was time to furnish this body with a spirit - a human spirit. Man learned to handle it well and took care of it. The monkey’s body got flatter by the human spirit’s conduct
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Ethics- Spring 2013 11 February 2013 Frankfurt on Personhood and Moral Responsibility In Harry Frankfurt’s philosophy journal on “Personhood and Moral Responsibility” he formulates many ideas of how people should act. He believes a person is morally responsible for what he has done‚ only if he could have done otherwise. A person could have done otherwise if the casual determinism is false‚ and therefore they are not morally responsible. According to Frankfurt‚ to be a person‚ one must have a
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organization vary among primates? How does social organization relate to adaptation to particular environments? Use at least 3 primates with examples and specific detail. Compare and contrast the social organization of orangutans‚ gorillas‚ and common chimpanzees. Social organization among primates varies in many ways. To name a few‚ primates have variations in body size‚ group composition‚ dominance hierarchies‚ diet and mating systems (158). In spite of the differences among primates‚ their social organization
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How do primates represent spatial information mentally and use this information for navigation? Researchers have proposed two major mental map representations of space in non-human primates. In a route-based or topological spatial representation map‚ primates have ideal pathways that they make use of repeatedly. Route-based makes also consist of discrete chosen landmarks as reference points to arrive at numerous locations from distinct directions (Urbani‚ 2009). In comparison‚ euclidean (coordinate-based)
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Abortion‚ definitely not the first time this word regarding personhood versus humanity has been played with human life. It is a touchy subject most average people do not want to get into‚ as due to its highly sensitive topics and vast opinions on the matter. During the time of slave trade‚ blacks were acknowledged as human beings‚ but not “persons”. To a certain perspective‚ it would suggest that treating living human beings with such vile care‚ such as kidnapping them from their homes‚ beating
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an ancient primate related to lemurs. Scientists have named the new species Ramadapis sahnii and claim that it existed 11 to 14 million years ago‚ and is a member of the early primate family Sivaladapidae. Analysis of the jawbone shows that the species consumed leaves and was approximately the same size as a house cat‚ or to a modern day lemur. This discovery is important to the scientific community as with this discovery more information surrounding the evolutionary history of primates can be gathered
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After going to Woodland Park and Zoo‚ observing primates has taught me about locomotor patterns of primates‚ relationships between locomotion and behavior‚ relationships between humans and other primates‚ and primates’ social interaction. Western Lowland Gorrilas are knucke-walkers‚ but they do climb and have a small of time standing bipedally. Since adult gorillas’ sheer sizes are big‚ they have to climb on the main trunk of the tree. Black-and-white Colobus Monkeys are arboreal quadruped and
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