Charlotte Witt, “The Metaphysics of Gender” (Oxford University Press, 2011)
New Books in Philosophy
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Is There a Human Organism?
In the fullness of time, constipation may come to constitute a social individual. So that would be like a toddler who had various social roles but was not capable of self-conscious reflection or having a full first-person perspective. In order to be a person, you're autonomous in the sense that you can make rules unto yourself and make them govern yourself. The statue is also an object of religious adoration. And it's being that is dependent on the social context, on its context. For example, there are these scandals with museums taking religious objects and using them as just art objects,. say American objects.
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