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Sorgner argues for a non-anthropocentric concept of personhood, which, however, does not claim universal validity, but is merely a fiction which is based upon widely shared attitudes. These reflections are based upon the epistemology of perspectivism in order to avoid a specific illegitimate type of discrimination, aletheisms. Like sexism, racism, and speciesism, aletheisms represents an attitude which implies a morally illegitimate form of discrimination. It regards all philosophical perspectives, which cannot be identified with the one and only truth in correspondence to the world, as monsters, which need to be fought against.
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“Pope Pius IX declared that animation begins with fertilization in 1869. He got rid of the distinction between a non-animated and an animated fetus, which used to be upheld by the Catholic Church until then” (see Sorgner 2020a, 218).
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Sorgner, S.L. (2022). Dignity, Personhood, and the Sacred. In: Jorion, P. (eds) Humanism and its Discontents. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67004-7_5
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