Animalism

Animalism is a theory according to which we are human animals. Animalism is not a theory about personhood, that is, a theory about what it means to be a person. Author Alisa Jakobi is showing human being archetype through the animals character. "The answer to the question “When does a person begin?” depends on what a person is: If an entity is a person, what kind of being, most fundamentally, is she? Since the persons we are familiar with are human persons—persons with human bodies—one may simply assume that what we human persons are most fundamentally are animals.1 I agree that it is often useful to think of us as animals—as long as we are thinking biologically, rather than ontologically. "