#fellow creatures

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Harvard professor: Animals are just as important as people

Harvard philosophy professor’s book asks humans to rethink their relationships with animals.

– Professor Christine Korsgaard's book Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals is a departure from her previous theoretical work on moral philosophy, as it deals with more practical ethical questions.

Korsgaard, Ph.D. ’81, has taught at Harvard for almost 30 years and is an expert on moral philosophy.

Drawing on the work of Immanuel Kant and Aristotle, she argues that humans have a duty to value our fellow creatures not as tools, but as sentient beings capable of consciousness and able to have lives that are good or bad for them.

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On a Kantian conception, what is special about human beings is not that we are the universe’s darlings, whose fate is absolutely more important than the fates of the other creatures who like us experience their own existence. It is exactly the opposite: What is special about us is the empathy that enables us to grasp that other creatures are important to themselves in just the way we are important to ourselves, and the reason that enables us to draw the conclusion that follows: that every animal must be regarded as an end in herself, whose fate matters, and matters absolutely, if anything matters at all.

Christine M. Korsgaard, Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals

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“the Crown of Creation”

“la Couronne de la Création”

“die Krone der Schöpfung”

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Fellow Creatures - Chocolate/ 2019. Design by Classmate Studio with illustrations by Egle Zvirblyte. 

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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 16 I admit that some writers have told me for the first time of heavens and hells I never met before; but many, equally great or greater, have told me only of those we all have to bear whether we choose to call them “unbearable” or not.

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Try not to think about it...

For @nollers - Fellow Creatures - Try Not To Think About It (Guitar cover)