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An Essay on Humanity to Animals is a 1798 book by English theologian Thomas Young. It advocates for the ethical treatment and welfare of animals. It argues for recognizing animals' natural rights and condemns the various forms of cruelty inflicted upon them in human activities. Drawing on moral, scriptural, and philosophical reasoning, Young ...
Taylor's Respect for Nature is widely considered one of the fullest and most sophisticated defences of a life-centered (biocentric) approach to nature. In this work, Taylor agrees with biocentrists that all living things, both plants and animals, have inherent value and deserve moral concern and consideration.
[44] [45] [46] Anthropomorphism, the attribution of human traits to non-human animals, is an important aspect of the way that humans relate to other animals such as pets. [ 47 ] [ 48 ] [ 49 ] There is a tension between the role of other animals as companions to humans, and their existence as individuals with rights of their own; ignoring those ...
Wild chimpanzees inhabit various environments in Africa, from dense tropical rainforests to more open woodland and savannah areas. Researchers examined genetic data from 388 wild chimpanzees in 18 ...
He urged respect for animals, because he believed that humans and non-humans had the same kind of soul, one spirit that pervades the universe and makes us one with animals. [4] The souls were indestructible, made of fire and air, and were reincarnated from human to animal, or vice versa, the so-called transmigration of the soul .
Cultural transmission is hypothesized to be a critical process for maintaining behavioral characteristics in both humans and nonhuman animals over time, and its existence relies on innovation, imitation, and communication to create and propagate various aspects of animal behavior seen today. [3] [4]
Although humans are part of nature, human activity or humans as a whole are often described as at times at odds, or outright separate and even superior to nature. [2] During the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries, nature became the passive reality, organized and moved by divine laws.
It was published by Princeton University Press as part of its Human Values series. The Lives of Animals consists of two chapters, "The Philosophers and the Animals" and "The Poets and the Animals," first delivered by Coetzee as guest lectures at Princeton on 15 and 16 October 1997, part of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values. [3]