ANSC 1210 Lecture 4: Lecture 4
8 Feb 2017
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Historical perspective - stories of concerns about animals. Explore views of several philosophers or thinkers. Understand the origins of the main ethical theories. Proposed close connections between animals and humans - kinships. Opposed to killing and consumption of animal (vegetarian) he believed sould reincarnate into both animal and humans. What he knew about pigs are still true today. Argued that only humans have the capacity for speech and reason (logos) All animal must have been made by nature for the sake of men . Claimed that nature did not equip humans to eat meat because we don"t like it unless we transform it by cooking and adding spice. Wrote a book on abstinence from killing animals . Argued that animals deserved moral consideration because they have capacity to feel distress, to be afraid, to be hurt therefore to be injured . Cosmic unity between humans and all of nature. Bird and animals addressed as his brothers and sisters.
