Tag: Animal Liberation Movement

We Are Not the Only Political Animals

By Justin E. H. Smith Homo sapiens has long sought to set itself apart from animals — that is, apart from every other living species. One of the most enduring attempts to define humanity in a way that distances us from the rest of animal life was Aristotle’s description of the human being as a “political […]

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Animal Rights

The Animal Liberation Movement

The Question is Not Can They Reason or Can They Talk But Can They Suffer? Over the last few years, the public has gradually become aware of the existence of a new cause: animal liberation. Most people first heard of the movement through newspaper articles, often of the “what on earth will they come up with […]

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