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百度 此前不久，越南总理阮春福在访问澳大利亚期间双方签署的《联合声明》指出“双方对南海局势表示担忧”，与越南与和印度、孟加拉国、新西兰等国签署的联合声明不同，明显是越南应澳大利亚方面的意见和要求加进去的，或者说单纯反映了澳大利亚方面的关切。
Animals are studied in biology, and the behavior of non-human animals is studied in ethology. Animals are specific biological category distinct from others in the overarching taxonomy of living things. Before modern science, classifying animals was less standardized and asserting the existence of imaginary animals was common.
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Is Human Moral Responsibility Arbitrary If We’re Part of Nature Like Other Animals?
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If humans are part of nature—just like other animals—why do we alone bear ethical responsibilities (e.g., reducing suffering, environmental harm)? If morality applies to humans, shouldn’...
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What is the source of Voltaire's apparent statement "if donkeys had gods, they would conceive them in their own image"?
What is the origin of Voltaire’s purported statement, “If donkeys had gods, they would conceive them in their own image”? Could this idea be traced back to Xenophanes, who criticized anthropomorphic ...
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How do you argue against animal cruelty if animals aren't moral agents?
How do you argue against animal cruelty if animals are not moral agents? Some argue that you can't be immoral to animals since they are not moral agents with a moral thinking. Animals don't ...
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Are there any moral theories, according to which we should give greater moral consideration to non-human animals than to human beings?
Are there any moral theories, whether contemporary or historical, according to which we should give greater moral consideration to non-human animals than to human beings? Regardless of whether such ...
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Doesn't a lack of free will provide a framework for an ethical model?
Without free will, I struggle to see the noteable difference between humans and animals. The only difference is the way they manifest themselves in the world. I do not feel it follows logically that ...
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What are the earliest advocates for animal rights and/or moral equivalency between killing animals Vs. Killing humans?
The vegans make arguments that killing sentient animals is murder in the same way that it would be to kill a human. They argue that the distinction is arbitrary, and from a very rationalist, ...
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Should animals be ethically considered?
I've heard lots of people say that animals just shouldn't be considered ethically, and so actions against them that they would consider morally wrong to do to humans don't matter. This doesn't make ...
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Does the focus on "humane" killing of animals distract from the real moral problem of killing?
"Humane" in respect to killing animals means to minimize the animal's pain as they die.
But this seems to completely sidestep the moral issue with killing, which has nothing to do with the ...
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Is there an ethical basis for killing less intelligent animals (as food) but not killing animals of higher intelligence?
I'd like to know whether morally there would be a difference between killing/hunting animals of higher intellect (apart from humans) and animals generally regarded of lower intellect. If there is no ...
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Within scholastics, how does animals' perception work, when compared to humans' apprehension of universals?
In the study of scholastic philosophy, I'm struggling with this question for a while:
It seems like dogs do know what dogs are. Aquinas states that animals have perception, capable of complex ...
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How to define intelligence amongst animals [closed]
In the comments section of this article: Humans can recognize and understand chimpanzee and bonobo gestures, a few philosophical questions came up which have redirected me here. Could you please shed ...
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Is it money that sets humans' societies apart from animals? [closed]
I've been thinking: Animals never exchange stuff to satisfy their needs. If a wolf wants to eat, it'll kill another animal. If it wants to reproduce itself, it'll just find another wolf and do it.
The ...
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Gods from the perspective of animals
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and
let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of
the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, ...
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Quotations from Descartes on Animals as Automata
Animals do not feel pain and are automata. This view is commonly attributed to Descartes. And I would agree that in his philosophy no other conclusion makes sense.
But still, I want to distinguish ...
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Animal commodification
Is it morally or ethically justified to commodify animals (i.e., such as the tiger temple when it was a thing)? Should humans treat animals' ends (telos) with as much respect as we do ourselves? ...
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