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153. BioLogos Book Club | Braiding Sweetgrass

Language of God

CHAPTER

Recognizing Agency and Personhood in Non-Human Beings

The speakers discuss the concept of recognizing agency and personhood in creatures other than humans and explore the moral implications of attributing these qualities to them. They also mention Richard Powers' book, 'Overstory,' which experiments with the idea of trees as characters with agency without anthropomorphizing them.

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