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11. - Animals

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

By
Martin Lenz
Edited by
Karolina Hübner  and
Justin Steinberg
Karolina Hübner
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Justin Steinberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Common talk of animals, and of the difference between human and nonhuman animals in particular, relies on universal notions. In many philosophical traditions, such notions are entangled with a hierarchy of supposed abilities or moral status, such that nonhuman animals are seen as superior to plants but as inferior to humans. Aristotelians commonly held that nonhuman animals lack rational capacities. Cartesians even assumed that nonhuman animals lack a soul.

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The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 29 - 30
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Grey, J. (2013). “Use them at our pleasure”: Spinoza on Animal Ethics. History of Philosophy Quarterly, 30(4), 367–88.Google Scholar
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  • Animals
  • Edited by Karolina Hübner, Cornell University, New York, Justin Steinberg, Cornell University, New York
  • Book: The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon
  • Online publication: 09 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108992459.011
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  • Animals
  • Edited by Karolina Hübner, Cornell University, New York, Justin Steinberg, Cornell University, New York
  • Book: The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon
  • Online publication: 09 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108992459.011
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  • Animals
  • Edited by Karolina Hübner, Cornell University, New York, Justin Steinberg, Cornell University, New York
  • Book: The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon
  • Online publication: 09 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108992459.011
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