Eugenics, as a modern concept, was originally developed by Francis Galton. It has roots in France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States in the 1860s-1870s.American William Goodell (lived from ...
Similar to many of the assumptions underlying the medical model of disability amongst many clinicians, the "ableist" societal world-view is that the able-bodied are the norm in society, and that peopl ...
Anthropocentrism, also known as homocentricism or human supremacism, has been posited by some environmentalists, in such books as Confessions of an Eco-Warrior by Dave Foreman and Green Rage by Christ ...
The term "wisdom of repugnance" was coined in 1997 by Leon Kass, chairman (2001–2005) of the President's Council on Bioethics, in an article in The New Republic, which was later expanded into a furth ...
A person can be a citizen for several reasons. Usually citizenship of the place of birth is automatic; in other cases an application may be required.Parents are citizens (jus sanguinis). If one or bot ...
An early philosophical discussion of self-awareness is that of John Locke. Locke was apparently influenced by René Descartes' statement normally translated 'I think, therefore I am' (Cogito ergo sum) ...
Some of Asimov's S.F. short stories and novels predict that this phobia will become strongest and most widespread when being directed against "mechanical men" that most-closely resemble human beings ( ...
Personhood is the status of being a person. Defining personhood is a controversial topic in philosophy and law, and is closely tied to legal and political concepts of citizenship, equality, and libert ...
Subspecies of H. sapiens include Homo sapiens idaltu and the only extant subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens. Some sources show Homo sapiens neanderthalensis as a subspecies of H. sapiens. Similarly, the ...
In Herbert Kelman's work on dehumanization, humanness has two features: "identity"—a perception of the person "as an individual, independent and distinguishable from others, capable of making choices ...
Although usually considered to have been coined by the Nazis, the term "under man" in the above mentioned sense was also used by American author Lothrop Stoddard in the title of his 1922 pamphlet The ...
In social philosophy, objectification means treating a person as a thing, without regard to their dignity.According to the philosopher Martha Nussbaum, a person is objectified if they are treated:as a ...
Frankenstein is written in the form of a frame story that starts with Captain Robert Walton writing letters to his sister.Captain Walton's introductory frame narrative The novel Frankenstein is writte ...
The Island of Doctor Moreau is the account of one Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked Englishman with a scientific education. A passing ship takes him aboard and a man named Montgomery revives him. The shi ...
The term "ecosystem" was introduced by Arthur Roy Clapham in early 1930s and became more widely known via the works of Arthur Tansley, a British ecologist. Tansley devised the concept to draw attentio ...
