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Daryl Bambic

The Biological Advantage of Being Awestruck - by @JasonSilva on Vimeo - 0 views

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    This video about the function of awe defies categories.  Put it in science? Put it in philosophy?  Bookmark it and share this idea of the power and function of awe.
Kelsey Adams

Visual of how many animals are killed per year under cruel measures - 1 views

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    This website gives an amazing visual as to how many animals are killed per year using awful and inhumane measures.
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    Stay away from the sensational, as tempting as it seems, and build RATIONAL arguments.
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    Why do you want or even need visual? That will not help build any rational arugment.
Kelsey Adams

The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan - 2 views

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    This is an actual case which demonstrated the various points as to why the use of animals as a resource is wrong. Tom Reagan explains that the people who are against the right of animals believe that their only purpose in our world is to be eaten, surgically manipulated and to be exploited for sport or money. It even sounds awful to say such a thing.
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    Where is this from? This is a file on the web but who publishes it and who is Tom Regan?
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    Tom Regan is an American philosopher who specializes in animal rights theory. He teaches at North Carolina State University. He is the author of numerous books on the philosophy of animal rights, including The Case for Animal Rights. His studies, books and cases have significantly influenced the modern animal liberation movement.
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    I was not able to sticky note the page but here are some parts i would have highlighted: Singer and Frey both offer arguments that are motivated by utilitarian concerns Regan offers his own Rights View as an adequate moral theory: to respect the rights of an individual is to treat that individual as if she was inherently valuable rather than merely useful (improvement on utilitarianism) Nothing less than the abolition of using animals as food, in science, and in industry is morally acceptable according to Regan
Daryl Bambic

The Psychology and Philosophy of Wonder | Outre monde - 1 views

  • By drawing us out of ourselves, wonder does make us feel small and insignificant, but it also gives us right perspective by reconnecting us with something much greater and vaster and higher and better than our daily struggles. Wonder is the ultimate homecoming, returning us to the world that we came from and were in danger of losing.
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      Does this sound like the world of Forms?
  • Socratic wonder is not so much wonder in the sense of awe, but, as hinted by Aristotle, wonder in the sense of puzzlement or perplexity: wonder that arises from contradictions in thought and language, and gives rise to a desire to resolve or at least understand these contradictions.
  • Socrates himself only turned to philosophy after being puzzled by the Delphic Oracle, which, though he believed himself to be ignorant, pronounced him to be the wisest of all men.
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  • “I am likely to be wiser than he to this small extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know.”
  • Wonder is a universal experience, found also in children and perhaps even in higher-order primates and other animals
  • of wonder share a concern for what is in some sense beyond us, or beyond our grasp.
  • and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.
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      The most lovely definition of wisdom I have seen: a perpetual state of wonder.
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