Personhood vs Humanity - What's the difference?
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The state or period of being a person.
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* 2014 , Christopher Watts, Relational Archaeologies: Humans, Animals, Things (page 101)
Mankind; human beings as a group.
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, title= The human condition or nature.
The quality of being benevolent.
Humane traits of character; humane qualities or aspects.
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As nouns the difference between personhood and humanity
is that personhood is the state or period of being a person while humanity is mankind; human beings as a group.personhood
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(en noun)- [Animals] are conscious; they are subjectively aware; they have interests; they can suffer. No characteristic other than sentience is required for personhood .
- 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
humanity
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(-)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity , and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].}}
- Think of that; by that sweet girl that old man had a child: hold ye then there can be any utter, hopeless harm in Ahab? No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities !”