Relating to my last post on Esposito and the concept of the person: In a fit of beautiful synergy, Peter is up with two posts linking to discussions on the African Akan notion of moral personhood. See here, and here.
I don't really know enough to make much more of a comment, but this certainly ties in well with what I was discussing earlier.
The agony of the rat or the slaughter of a calf remains present in thought not through pity but as the zone of exchange between man and animal in which something of one passes into the other. - Deleuze and Guattari, What Is Philosophy?
