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n. - An act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities.

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  • I do not exactly understand the meaning of the word animalisation?
  • In that case, the “last man” would extinguish all hope for humanity (Nietzsche); the “night of the world” would be at hand (Heidegger); the animalisation of man would be...
  • Babylonian civilisation, the city of Ur; that they had been, it is said for centuries, in close contact with the Egyptians; and that, in the theology of both the Babylonians...
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