L2: Nonhuman Personhood

Question 1

How can we describe relational persons? (3)

Answer 1

Every person is influenced and constantly shaped by their relations with:

• other persons (1)
• other aspects of their environment (1)
• aspects of the world that they inhabit (1)

Question 2

What does Ingold mean when he describes pets as “diminished persons”? (2)

Answer 2

Personhood is created through living alongside human beings (1)

Their personhood arises out of proximity to humans (1)

Question 3

What is Robert Brightman’s adversial model in hunting? (4)

Answer 3

Humans overcome animals as adversaries in a competitive relationship (1)

We hunt the animal to overcome the animal (1)

The animal doesn’t want to give itself (1)

Humans need to be smart in order to “win the battle” (1)

Question 4

What is Robert Brightman’s benefactive model in hunting? (2)

Answer 4

Animals willingly give themselves to the hunter within reprociprical relations (1)

Animals give themselves to the hunter under the conditions that the animal remains respected by the respectful hunter (1)