To present or regard as an object: “Because we have objectified animals, we are able to treat them impersonally” (Barry Lopez).
Also, depersonalisation. Also, a short hop-skip-jump to solipsism: "Belief that only I myself and my own experiences are real, while anything else—a physical object or another person—is nothing more than an object of my consciousness. As a philosophical position, solipsism is usually the unintended consequence of an over-emphasis on the reliability of internal mental states, which provide no evidence for the existence of external referents."
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Date: 2004-02-13 07:08 pm (UTC)“Because we have objectified animals, we are able to treat them impersonally” (Barry Lopez).
Also, depersonalisation. Also, a short hop-skip-jump to solipsism: "Belief that only I myself and my own experiences are real, while anything else—a physical object or another person—is nothing more than an object of my consciousness. As a philosophical position, solipsism is usually the unintended consequence of an over-emphasis on the reliability of internal mental states, which provide no evidence for the existence of external referents."
http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/s7.htm