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animalism

the doctrine or belief that man lacks a spiritual nature
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One pervasive question the essays raise is what exactly animalism implies.
Blatti, Stephan, and Paul F. Snowdon, editors. Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity
His entry into the room where all (neighbors, relatives and the dreaded/ loved Baron) are looking at Nina's dead body, is for me a real Kafkaesque tribute to the insensitivity of the "civilized" in relation to common humanity, close to a revolting/monstrous animalism (19).
"How I became what I am": an aesthetics of twist cinema in films from the 1960s and 1970s
Mill, also lacking this vision, fell easy victim to his neatly phrased animalism that denied the spiritual and creative powers of a contractually related and thus spiritually emerging, as against a politically dominated and coercively regulated, mankind.
Malthus's doctrine in historical perspective
9) That spirit, the "brawn" of Leaves of Grass, he wrote in 1876, is a sense of the life, as it should be, of flesh and blood, and physical urge, and animalism.
Whitman in the abstract
We can now hear ideas about teletransportation, animalism and the transcendental ego discussed against a jazz groove.
Innovative album a fusion of jazz and philosophy; James Tartaglia is both a philosopher and a musician - and he has finally found a way to bring these two passions together. He talks to PETER BACON
He has published extensively on the relationship between animalism, minimalism and impressionism, culminating in his most recent book, The Crack in the Comic Ache.
The mother of all business models
The naked body exposed to public gaze is often discussed as indicative of animalism, criminality, debauchery, chaos, transgression, deviance, hypersexual perversion, erotic oases, or incivility (Andriotis 2010; Barcan 2001; Cover 2003; Daley 2005).
Material presence and the detox delusion: insights from social nudism
Reports of the bodies of non-'white' people in the colonial era also frequently emphasised the animalism of their subjects.
The nimble savage: press constructions of Pacific Islander swimmers in early twentieth-century Australia
Her philosophy, Lewis reveals in a note, is "[t]he bad semierotic kind of Romanticism-halfway between mere animalism and a real form of spiritualism and ready to lead you the whole way to one if you don't make her lead you the whole way to the other.
The Pilgrim's Regress: Wade Annotated Edition
She's motivated by the idea of animalism as a form of sensuality, and the view that humans are mere animals; or as she and others might have it, "animals are merely human.
Extinction art: artists are confronting us with the world as it is, was and could be
Home, who expounded that the war was "basically, a contest between animalism and spirituality" and rallied that "with clear conscience and firm resolve we can face the coming bitter year" ("A Message from the President to the Members," vol.
The role of The CPA Journal during World War II: informing professionals and championing their service
Among the topics are animalism and the remnant-person problem, feelings about the self, empirical and conceptual clarifications regarding the notion of "core-self" from Gallagher's and Merker's behavioral-neuroscientific proposals, and the reality of the virtual self as interface to the social world.
Philosophical Perspectives on the Self
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