No dogs or philosophers allowed11/16/2022 ![]() ![]() One could argue, though, that there are some rudiments of moral expectation or anthropomorphism involved on the part of the owner. Pet-owners often scold their pets for engaging in certain undesirable types of behavior, such as urinating on the carpet, digging in the garden, or failing to obey a command, but a scream of “bad dog” is not usually considered to imply moral agency. A lion in the jungle killing another animal to eat, or killing a human for whatever reason, is not held to be engaging in morally impermissible or blameworthy behavior. Nonhuman animals, such as dogs, cats, birds, and fish, are commonly held not to be moral agents and not moral persons. Ordinarily, human beings are considered moral agents and moral persons. It makes sense to hold them morally responsible for their intentional actions. Their acts are blameworthy or praiseworthy. Moral agents engage in behavior that can be evaluated as moral or immoral, as morally right or wrong, as morally permissible or morally impermissible. The moral sense of personhood denotes individual beings who are moral agents. It will be useful to distinguish among different types, contexts, or meanings of personhood: moral, metaphysical, physical, and legal. Some thinkers use the term “person” in such a way that one is either a person or not, but the situation is not that simple. It also has other philosophical and legal relevance. ![]() Find a quote by someone famous, tweak it into a canine version of quote and author, and post it in the comments section.The concept of personhood is widely involved in biomedical ethics discussions about abortion, stem-cell research, euthanasia, etc., though it is not always discussed explicitly. Give me your best canine convictions, dog doctrines, and pooch philosophy. Okay, those are my contributions of furry (or maybe it should be fuzzy) philosophy. William SchnauzerspeareĬats should be seen and not heard. To nap, or not to nap: that is the question. Nearly all dogs can stand adversity, but if you want to test a dog’s character, give him a bone. Never ask for whom the ball is thrown it is thrown for thee. Pawmas Alva EdisonĪsk not what your dog can do for you, but what you can do for your dog. Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent being a dog. I hope you have as much fun reading them as I did writing them. Here are the ones I’ve come up with so far, in no particular order or supposed hierarchy of relevance. That was the proverbial push to take me down the silly road of furry philosophy. Anyway, the next thing you know, since I’m writing to a “literate” pet, I decide I should raise the bar a little, and I added the following “quote” to the e-mail:Ī fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. ![]()
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