different between animalism vs animatism

English

Etymology

animal +? -ism

Noun

animalism (countable and uncountable, plural animalisms)

1. The doctrine that humans are merely animals, and lack any spirituality.
2. The enjoyment of physical appetites.
3. (philosophy, ontology) A theory of personal identity which holds that persons are individual organisms of the species Homo sapiens, and the conditions of our persistence and identity are simply those of animals.
   • 2014, Neil A. Manson, Robert W. Barnard, The Bloomsbury Companion to Metaphysics, Bloomsbury Publishing (?ISBN), page 237:

     Animalism understands the human person and the human animal to be identical. The major appeal of animalism is that it avoids the spatially coincident thinkers discussed earlier. “Person” is just a phase sortal of the organism.

Related terms

• animalist

See also

• speciesism

Further reading

• animalism (philosophy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

animate +? -ism. Originally coined by British anthropologist Robert Marett to refer to "a belief in a generalized, impersonal power over which people have some measure of control".

Noun

animatism (countable and uncountable, plural animatisms)

1. (anthropology) The belief that everything is pervaded with a life-force giving each inanimate object a consciousness or personality, but not a soul as in animism.

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