Creaturism

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    animalistic behaviour uncountable

    "The selfishness of this sort, with reverence I write it, is no more creaturism than it is creatorism. For a being that acts, whether created or uncreated, must act from some principle; and if that principle is good, the conduct flowing from it must certainly bestow pleasure."

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"The selfishness of this sort, with reverence I write it, is no more creaturism than it is creatorism. For a being that acts, whether created or uncreated, must act from some principle; and if that principle is good, the conduct flowing from it must certainly bestow pleasure."

Etymology

From creature + -ism.

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