ANSC 1210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Immanuel Kant, Immortal Souls, Categorical Imperative

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Animal Science
• Course: ANSC 1210
• Professor: Alexandra Harlander

Document Summary

Some of these views will be revisited during seminar: goal is to understand the origin of the main ethical theories. Pythagoras: greek philosopher and mathematician, proposed close connections between humans and animals (cid:862)ki(cid:374)ship(cid:863) (cid:449)as the (cid:271)asis of (cid:373)oral (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)er(cid:374)s, opposed to the killing and consumption of animals. Souls may reincarnate in the bodies of both animals and humans. Maintained a collection of wild animals: wrote (cid:862)history of the a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als(cid:863) Zoology and husbandry: animals and humans share perception and emotion, argued that only humans have the capacity for speech and reason (logos) God is superior to man, men to women, greek to other ethnic groups, etc. Humans are superior to animals and have absolute authority over them (cid:862)all a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als (cid:373)ust ha(cid:448)e (cid:271)ee(cid:374) (cid:373)ade (cid:271)y (cid:374)ature for the sake of (cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:863) Plutarch: greek essayist and biographer, argued that animals do use reason, claimed that nature did not equip humans to eat meat.