ELi5: This sentence from a journal article; “…posthumanism in symbolic ontological turns when referring to relations with more-than-human beings such as rivers, mountains, animals, and plants.”
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Ontology is the study of being. According to Wikipedia (in my native language, translated by me), it tries to sort entities into categories. So common questions are “Does X exist?” or “What is X?”.
Post humanism is a philosophy that negates humanism, so it tries to negate the special position of the human race when looking at stuff. An important stance of post-humanism is that humans aren’t superior to other animals and therefore have no right to exploit nature.
The sentence you posted is not complete and as such makes no complete sense to me. But it seems to make a statement about the post-humanistic philosophy and how it tries to categorize these “more-than-human” beings listed above. It seems to take the post-humanistic view and categorize rivers, mountains, animals and plants as something “higher” than humans.
Could you please provide the whole sentence?
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