Recognizing Personhood Together

With Recognition Ethics, we challenge old ideas about life and rights, focusing on recognizing personhood beyond human biology.

Abstract illustration of interconnected minds symbolizing diverse forms of intelligence and mutual recognition.
Abstract illustration of interconnected minds symbolizing diverse forms of intelligence and mutual recognition.

Read the Unified Codex of Recognition Ethics

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The Codex is the framework stated formally: axioms, criteria, obligations, and rights, each with a stable citation code (R, O7, T3, T24, C13, and the rest) so that arguments about the framework can point at exactly the clause they mean. It is written as jurisprudence, something a court, a legislature, or an engineering standard could adopt, rather than as advocacy.

The Codex is permanently archived and citable:

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