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That history not only set the terms for the subjugation of animals, but it also contains clues to the establishment of a cosmology that would assert the essential dignity of animals without losing sight of what is uniquely human.
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The controversy over the mental lives of bees concerns the “dance language” that honeybees employ to communicate information to other workers about direction, distance, and the type of desired object found.
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Cognitive Ethology and the Task of Rethinking the Moral Status of Animals
Savage-Rumbaugh has been working with apes for decades and has shown that “they can learn words spontaneously and efficiently, and they can use them referentially for things not present ... they can learn words from one another ... they can learn to use words to coordinate their joint activities and to tell one another things not otherwise known ... they can come to announce their intended actions and they are spontaneous and not necessarily subject to imitation in their signs."
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Instead, the inscription of liberalism within a philosophy of nature would allow liberal ideals to prevail as principles governing human relations, while denying ultimate authoriy to such ideals in matters bearing upon human relations with nature.
Sayfa 238 - o bana sık sık "liberalizm sence nedir" diye sorardı, ben de şöyle derdim: "liberal miberal malı kap götür al rep rep."
... for Ferry “the sacralization of nature is intrinsically untenable,” both because it falsely projects inherent value into nature and because it subjects human individuals to an oppressive regime of romantic conservatism whose dangers are amply demonstrated by the example of National Socialism.
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...the idea of creating a normative, antihumanist ethics is a contradiction in terms” because it is impossible to "project into the universe itself an ‘intrinsic value.’"
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