The reaction is understandable since, as Cahill observes, "Rape, in its total denial of the victim's agency, will, and personhood, can be understood as a denial of intersubjectivity itself ….
In dementia personhood can be understood as increasingly concealed rather than lost.
(Shankara [traditional attribution], second half of the 8th century: 101) If the Brahman has no properties, it necessarily lacks the properties of omniscience, perfect goodness, omnipotence, and personhood, and cannot therefore be understood as God.
Clementi, unlike Orwell's Winston Smith, who hid from the telescreens whenever possible and understood that the price of personhood was ceaseless self-censorship and vigilance, had no way of knowing that the walls had eyes.
Personhood is not, in fact, coextensive with humanity when understood as a general description of the group to which human beings belong.
I show how this is locally understood as insufficient for defining socially recognized Islamic personhood in cases of miscarriage and stillbirth.
Kitwood reconceptualised personhood by not linking it exclusively to cognitive functioning but understood it as socially constructed in an interactional environment.
Buck took back his endorsement, saying he didn't understand that personhood would ban common forms of birth control.
In the United States, the personhood status of corporations gives them, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, a right to free speech understood as a right to pour money into the political battle.
In a statement about the election, Planned Parenthood said, "Mississippi voters rejected the so-called 'personhood' amendment because they understood it is government gone too far".
