“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.”
Source: Reflections (1999), p. 118
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“Dying more like animals than human beings.”
Non come uomini, ma quasi come bestie, morieno.
First Day, Introduction
The Decameron (c. 1350)
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"Interview with Seba Johnson" http://www.theghostsinourmachine.com/interview-with-seba-johnson/, The Ghosts in Our Machine (2014).
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“Animals come when their names are called. Just like human beings.”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 67e