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Each story conveys altruistic deeds performed by the Buddha and suggest little or no difference between human and animal moral behavior. These folktales also suggest that most nonhuman animals have at some point in the reincarnation process been a mother, father, husband, wife, sister, brother, ...
Not so dispositions which rely entirely on the activity of some other agent.” So, for example, “the tendencies of human beings just qua bodies are not usually described as capacities”: your tendency to fall towards the ground when dropped from a medium height is not (on this proposal) ...
• The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. --Mohandas Gandhi •【甘地:良心之声寂静微小,但它传递的距离是人声永远达不到的。】 Episode 24: Amplification(2009.05.13) • It will become fine dust over all the land of egypt,and ...
In this book, I would like to write a certain part of a modern Chinese society, a certain kinds of people. I wrote this type of persons, but I did not forget that they are human, and only two human beings, animals have no gross basic roots. Role of course is a fiction, but there...
aThey do, however, not experience more anger and moral outrage than persons low in victim sensitivity when they are confronted with a person who simply had good luck (even if the other person’s good luck is at their own expense, such as in the lucky partner condition). 他们,然而,比人不...
What kinds of changes and events can beings such as us survive? The answer to these questions has bearing on several themes in bioethics, such as the moral status of a human foetus and the moral legitimacy of advance directives and living wills. In the philosophical debate, there are two ...
Immigration is prohibitively expensive for the majority of human beings on the planet. 对于地球上的人们来说,移民的成本太高了。 Even if immigration were affordable, most human beings have unchosen, intimate, connections to peopl...
all beings who pass a threshold of self-awareness, or moral agency? all humans? all great apes? all sentient beings? by john m. marzluff as a biologist, i believe all living organisms have rights. as one who spends a good portion of every year in close company with smart and social ...
athere is moral significance in the fact that our interests are impacted by government (and other powerfuI organisations) only by rules that say what categories of persons and actions are to be treated the same or differently. 有道德意义在事实我们的兴趣由政府和 (其他powerfuI仅组织冲击) 由认为...