Objectification

In other words, real intimacy is relational, not performative.

Objectification and humanity.

Another important theme in my dissertation concerns objectification.

Objectification occurs when people are viewed primarily as objects rather than fully human beings.

When empathy decreases, objectification increases.

When awareness increases, empathy becomes possible.

The question is whether we become conscious of what we have learned.

What is objectification? One of the major concerns explored throughout the literature is objectification culture.

But the world for the thinking mind is a world of objects.

And our sciences are based on objectification.

and reductionism, reducing everything to the smallest possible objects and analyzing those objects into smaller and smaller objects.

This is what science has been doing.

I mean, all these things are interconnected.

Objectification always leads to commodification.

If we can objectify the baby in the womb, right, that's been the whole argument, isn't it, of being pro-choice? They say it's not a person.

It's not a person.

You could say that they're the same thing.

I mean, I think that's an argument you could absolutely make.

Objectification is commodification.

But if you're watching porn, you're already objectifying human beings.