diff --git a/john beckett on animism.md b/john beckett on animism.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f3ca2d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/john beckett on animism.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: "annotation of some are called, some are claimed, and some delude themselves" +layout: post +category: responses +tags: annotation +replyto: "https://www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbeckett/2021/11/some-are-called-some-are-claimed-and-some-delude-themselves.html" +date: "2021-11-07T21:52:44.148266+00:00" +hypothesislink: "https://hyp.is/CbQV-EAVEeyt3neN5ttRTg/www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbeckett/2021/11/some-are-called-some-are-claimed-and-some-delude-themselves.html" +--- + + + +> ...s with persons who aren’t human +[Animism](#animism) – which is a worldview, not a religion – teaches that all things are not things but persons. If we are virtuous and ethical, we do not use and exploit other persons – we form respectful relationships with them. +Other-than-human persons are not human, so we don’t relate to them the same way we relate to other humans. Our relationships with tree-persons and wind-persons and cat-persons aren’t the same as our relationships with human-persons, but they are relationships nonetheless. +The same is true of our relatio... + +Cf. what I love about [konmari](#konmari)