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Personalism vs Personhood - What's the difference?

personalism | personhood |

As nouns the difference between personalism and personhood

is that personalism is (philosophy) a doctrine of subjective idealism that regards personality as the means of interpreting reality while personhood is the state or period of being a person.

personalism

English

Noun

(wikipedia personalism) (-)
  • (philosophy) A doctrine of subjective idealism that regards personality as the means of interpreting reality.

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    personhood

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The state or period of being a person.
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    • [Animals] are conscious; they are subjectively aware; they have interests; they can suffer. No characteristic other than sentience is required for personhood .
  • * 2014 , Christopher Watts, Relational Archaeologies: Humans, Animals, Things (page 101)
    • These examples reveal that the shared personhood of hunters and prey was mutually comprehensible, such that hunters could see the animalness of themselves and the humanness of prey, and prey could see the humanness of themselves