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Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of…
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The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop…
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We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of…
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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather…
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If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the…
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Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not…
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People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable…
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There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by…
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It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used…
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As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty.…
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With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail…
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...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have…
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Our first intuitions are the true ones.
— Emile M. Cioran
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All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
— Immanuel Kant
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The angels are a strange genus, they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves soul-less beings…
— Carl Jung
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through…
— Immanuel Kant
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The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God,…
— Antony Hewish
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No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of.…
— Jerry Fodor
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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather…
— Peter Singer
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We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason,…
— Charles Darwin
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Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange…
— Loren Eiseley
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Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of…
— Lewis Mumford
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We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude.…
— Joan Halifax
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Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental sensation, not…
— Robert Burton
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