{"id":1983,"date":"2009-12-29T16:16:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T15:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2009-12-30T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T15:14:00","slug":"kennethamy-on-the-difference-between-human-and-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2009\/12\/kennethamy-on-the-difference-between-human-and-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennethamy on the difference between human and person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kennethamy<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;A human being is a biological category, and can be defined by human DNA, it seems to me. The category, person, is not biological, and maybe your teacher is confusing &#8220;human beings&#8221; with &#8220;persons&#8221;. All human beings need not be persons. For example, small infants are not yet persons. &#8220;Person&#8221; is a legal and social category. And all persons need not be human beings. For example, Mr. Spock (of Star Treck) was not a human being (he was part [Vulcan]). But he was certainly a person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That seems to me to be just right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philosophyforum.com\/philosophy-forums\/philosophy-101\/6767-philosophy-paper-need-help-getting-started.html#post106506\">Source<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kennethamy &#8220;A human being is a biological category, and can be defined by human DNA, it seems to me. The category, person, is not biological, and maybe your teacher is confusing &#8220;human beings&#8221; with &#8220;persons&#8221;. All human beings need not be persons. For example, small infants are not yet persons. &#8220;Person&#8221; is a legal and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1516,948],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-human","tag-person","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}