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    Default Humans Are Animals. Let’s Get Over It.

    One difficult thing to face about our animality is that it entails our deaths; being an animal is associated throughout philosophy with dying purposelessly, and so with living meaninglessly. It is rationality that gives us dignity, that makes a claim to moral respect that no mere animal can deserve.

    “The moral law reveals to me a life independent of animality,” writes Immanuel Kant in “Critique of Practical Reason.” In this assertion, at least, the Western intellectual tradition has been remarkably consistent.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/o...hilosophy.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    One difficult thing to face about our animality is that it entails our deaths; being an animal is associated throughout philosophy with dying purposelessly, and so with living meaninglessly. It is rationality that gives us dignity, that makes a claim to moral respect that no mere animal can deserve.

    “The moral law reveals to me a life independent of animality,” writes Immanuel Kant in “Critique of Practical Reason.” In this assertion, at least, the Western intellectual tradition has been remarkably consistent.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/o...hilosophy.html
    if you had even the slightest clue to what you posted, you would know that they article could only be accessed via a subscription.

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    if you had even the slightest clue to what you posted, you would know that they article could only be accessed via a subscription.
    Wrong. But...thanks for the obnoxious insults.

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    If one were to read through the prefaces and first paragraphs of the canonical works of Western philosophy, one might assume the discipline’s primary question to be this: What makes us humans so much better than all the other animals? Really, it’s astonishing how relentless this theme is in the whole history of philosophy. The separation of people from, and the superiority of people to, members of other species is a good candidate for the originating idea of Western thought. And a good candidate for the worst.

    The Great Philosopher will, before addressing himself to the deep ethical and metaphysical questions, pause for the conventional, ground-clearing declaration: “I am definitely not a squirrel.” This is evidently something that needs continual emphasizing.

    Rationality and self-control, as philosophers underline again and again, give humans a value that squirrels lack (let’s just stick with this species for the time being), a moral status unique to us. We are conscious, and squirrels, allegedly, are not; we are rational, and squirrels are not; we are free, and squirrels are not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Wrong. But...thanks for the obnoxious insults.
    Then explain to us, why you would post a link that required a paid subscription? Do you subscribe to the failing NYT???

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    Then explain to us, why you would post a link that required a paid subscription? Do you subscribe to the failing NYT???
    Please go away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Please go away.
    You are unable to answer such a simple question?

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    The question really is do animals have souls or spirits?

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    You are unable to answer such a simple question?
    Clear cookies and you get three articles to read per month.

    I don't bother because it's a pain in the ass.
    Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Althea View Post
    Clear cookies and you get three articles to read per month.

    I don't bother because it's a pain in the ass.

    Thats not the point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    You are unable to answer such a simple question?
    I am marking you down as not more intelligent than a squirrel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    The question really is do animals have souls or spirits?
    What if they do?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    What if they do?
    That would change everything.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    I am marking you down as not more intelligent than a squirrel.
    grow up one of these days. So you fucked up, everyone does at one time or another

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    Thats not the point.
    I understand. I never bother with a NYT link. But if you were interested, you could read the article.
    Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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