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The doctrine that humans are merely animals, and lack any spirituality. / The enjoyment of physical appetites.

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animalism

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animalism

Noun

countable uncountable

The doctrine that humans are merely animals, and lack any spirituality. / The enjoyment of physical appetites.

Japanese Meaning

人間は単なる動物であり、霊性を欠くとする教義・思想 / 肉体的欲求の享受、肉欲の追求

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Academics debated whether animalism could account for moral responsibility in humans.

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学者たちは、人間は単なる動物で霊性を持たないという説が人間の道徳的責任を説明できるかどうかを議論した。

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The doctrine that humans are merely animals, and lack any spirituality.

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The enjoyment of physical appetites.

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(philosophy, ontology) A theory of personal identity which holds that persons are individual organisms of the species Homo sapiens, and the conditions of our persistence and identity are simply those of animals.

Animalism understands the human person and the human animal to be identical. The major appeal of animalism is that it avoids the spatially coincident thinkers discussed earlier. “Person” is just a phase sortal of the organism.

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