I'd take as the author saying people should be concerned with whether other people recognize them as beings with the capacity for similarly complex thought and emotion (human) or whether they do not (dehumanizing them). Considering to what extent you're humanized by others should lead you to consider to what extent you're dehumanized, and in what contexts. And the first bit to mean that humanity's most glaring problem has been the lack of humanizing of other humans, I think. That makes sense to me at least. And that people have done both to varying degrees throughout history.
Maybe I'm wrong, this seems so obvious as to be inane but maybe they're just too verbose for my taste...
Not 100,% on their use of "un-" & "incomplete" though. Could mean a lot of things, and I'm not sure why someone would have to be conscious of this quality about their sense of self to wonder how much humanity they're considered to have by other people?
I'd take as the author saying people should be concerned with whether other people recognize them as beings with the capacity for similarly complex thought and emotion (human) or whether they do not (dehumanizing them). Considering to what extent you're humanized by others should lead you to consider to what extent you're dehumanized, and in what contexts. And the first bit to mean that humanity's most glaring problem has been the lack of humanizing of other humans, I think. That makes sense to me at least. And that people have done both to varying degrees throughout history.
Maybe I'm wrong, this seems so obvious as to be inane but maybe they're just too verbose for my taste...
Not 100,% on their use of "un-" & "incomplete" though. Could mean a lot of things, and I'm not sure why someone would have to be conscious of this quality about their sense of self to wonder how much humanity they're considered to have by other people?