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What is it to recognise the reality of another human being — to recognise them as a human being? We might say that it is to recognise them as a being that thinks, acts, sees, gets depressed and angry, feels pain, and so on. While nothing along these lines can, I think, be the whole story we can begin with this. Now, what is it to recognise another as a being with these features? There is no simple answer to this question. I want, however, to try to indicate in a general way a central aspect of the kind of answer that I think must be given.
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Cockburn, D. (1990). ‘An Attitude towards a Soul’. In: Other Human Beings. Swansea Studies in Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21138-8_1
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