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Whether a "subhuman" classification means "human but inferior" or "not human at all" may be academic, as in practice it corresponds to prejudice regardless (for example, compare the Nazi idea of the Untermensch).
[1] [2] [3] A practical definition refers to it as the viewing and the treatment of other people as though they lack the mental capacities that are commonly attributed to humans. [4] In this definition, every act or thought that regards a person as "less than" human is dehumanization. [5] Dehumanization is one form of incitement to genocide. [6]
Moral conversion, according to Lonergan, is one of three different types of conversion along with the intellectual and the religious conversion. [9] From a causal point of view, it is the difference between varying levels of consciousness leading to a higher sense of responsibility for the world.
Humanism addresses ethics without reference to the supernatural as well, attesting that ethics is a human enterprise (see naturalistic ethics). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Accounts of humanism are also careful not to treat secular humanism analogously with religions, which implies a community who strictly attempt to adhere to the same obligations or beliefs.
These converts are also given land and money. For example, 428 poor Hindus in Matli were converted between 2009 and 2011 by the Madrassa Baitul Islam, a Deobandi seminary in Matli, which pays off the debts of Hindus converting to Islam. [179] Another example is the conversion of 250 Hindus to Islam in Chohar Jamali area in Thatta. [180]
Nevertheless, the idea of creating intelligent artificial beings (proposed, for example, by roboticist Hans Moravec) has influenced transhumanism. [38] Moravec's ideas and transhumanism have also been characterised as a "complacent" or " apocalyptic " variant of posthumanism and contrasted with " cultural posthumanism " in humanities and the ...
The god Hermanubis, an example of Greco-Egyptian syncretism The god Taranis-Jupiter, an example of Romano-Celtic syncretism. Religious syncretism is the blending of two or more religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation into a religious tradition of beliefs from unrelated traditions. This can occur for many reasons, and ...
A prosopopoeia (Ancient Greek: προσωποποιία, / p r ɒ s oʊ p oʊ ˈ p iː ə /) is a rhetorical device in which a non-human element speaks or is spoken to as a human. The term derives from the Greek words prósopon (transl. face, person) and poiéin (transl. to make, to do).