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Jun 17, 2019 · In her new book, “Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals,” Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy Christine Korsgaard makes the case that humans are not inherently more important than animals and therefore should treat them much better than we do. Korsgaard, Ph.D. ’81, has taught at Harvard for almost 30 years and ...
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I studied animal consciousness for my M.A. and was amazed how complex and smart they are). But anyway, for these philosophers, there is a hierarchy where some animals matter more than others. Now here's the important point: Even if animals' lives were less valuable than human lives, this would not necessarily justify people eating animals.
In hunter societies, dogs were the only animals we needed to work with. However, the onset of agriculture, around 11,500 years ago led to the domestication of a whole new suite of animals. Some might think that humans are more important than other animals because we have the intelligence to use animals to help us meet our aims in our everyday ...
From early humans rubbing sticks together to make fire, to the fossil fuels that drove the industrial revolution, energy has played a central role in our development as a species. But the way we ...
Humans are definitely more important than animals. Nevertheless, many prominent Christian figures in history, like Francis of Assisi, became famous for their inclusion of animals as close friends, deserving love and mercy.
Jun 17, 2019 · Some people think that humans are just plain more important than other animals. I ask: More important to whom? We may be more important to ourselves, but that doesn’t justify our treating animals as if they’re less important to us, any more than the fact that your family is more important to you justifies you treating other people’s families as if they are less important than yours.
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Abstract. This chapter criticizes the familiar idea that humans are more important than animals. After examining some reasons why we treat humans and animals differently, and showing that they do not imply the superior importance of humans, it argues that the claim of superior human importance is not so much false as (nearly) incoherent.
