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3 unusual facts about Personhood


Personhood

As it turns out, this erasure... is precisely what is experimentally dramatized in the “science fiction” film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a far more philosophically sophisticated meditation on personal identity than is found in most of the contemporary literature on the topic.

The Whanganui River of New Zealand is revered by the local Maori people as Te Awa Tupua, sometimes translated as "an integrated, living whole".

Wynn Schwartz has offered a Paradigm Case Formulation of Persons as a format allowing judges to identify qualities of personhood in different entities.


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Left-libertarianism

They see Walmart as a symbol of corporate favoritism—supported by highway subsidies and eminent domain—view the fictive personhood of the limited-liability corporation with suspicion, and doubt that Third World sweatshops would be the "best alternative" in the absence of government manipulation.

Psychology of self

In Inventing our selves: Psychology, power, and personhood, Nikolas Rose (1998) proposes that psychology is now employed as a technology that allows humans to buy into an invented and arguably false sense of self.

Sacra Corona

Holy Crown of Hungary, playing an important role in the history of the Kingdom of Hungary, going as far as obtaining legal personhood


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