Additional: Quotes Flashcards
“Man is his soul”
PLATO
“Man is the whole of his body and soul.”
ARISTOTLE
“The soul is not a soul if it is not the soul of a body.”
ST. AUGUSTINE
“The human soul is the form of the body, the principle by which the body lives, and the principle in virtue of which bodily activities take place.”
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
“We should doubt all that we know because, first, they come from
our senses which can be mistaken or can deceive us, and second, these can be just the result of a dream.”
Rene Descartes (first meditation)
“Even if I use the methodic doubt, there is one truth that I cannot deny or doubt: I think, therefore, I am (Cogito ergo sum). Even if I fully deny or doubt this, I only prove by my denial and doubting that I am thinking and existing.”
Rene Descartes (second meditation)
“even if we can prove the reality of the world and material things, the real essence of man is still different from his body.”
Rene Descartes (last meditation)
“I place myself outside of the thing that I am inquiring on. An ob-jectum (“thrown in
front”). It has nothing to do with myself nor do I have anything to do with it.”
Gabriel Marcel (Primary Reflection)
‘”I HAVE A BODY.”
Primary Reflection
“I recognize that I am part of the thing I am investigating, and therefore, my discussion is sub-jective (“thrown beneath”). I have something to do with it and it has something to do with me. Because I participate in the
thing, I cannot tear it apart into clear and
fixed ideas; I have to describe and bring it unique wholeness in my concrete
experience.”
Gabriel Marcel (Secondary Reflection)
“I have my body” and “I am my body”.
The Human Person as Embodied Spirit
“unfree man is a disgrace to nature”.
Friedrich Nietzsche
‘one’s “higher self” therefore means
fulfilling one’s loftiest vision, noblest ideal’
Friedrich Nietzsche
“MAN is superior because of
his/her unique capacity as a
rational being’”
Plato and Aristotle
‘MAN as superior because of
his/her unique capacity as a
rational being’
Plato and Aristotle
“man is the measure of all things.”
Protagoras
“Our own good requires that we
have due and wise regard for
animals and environment”
Barbara Mackinnon (“Ethics: theory and Contemporary Issues”)
"the realm of being morally considerable must extended to higher forms of animals or intelligent animals like dogs and chimpanzees, who are sentient—have the capacity to feel pain."
Peter Singer (Animal Liberation)
“To give preference to the life of a being, simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race”.
Peter Singer,
“all the arguments to prove man’s superiority cannot shatter this hard fact; in the animals are our equals."
Peter Singer
“all living things should be
considered as “teleogical centers of
life”
Paul Taylor
“Being sentient
is just a means of attaining a living
organism’s goal of being alive or having
life.
Kenneth Goodpaster “On Being
Morally Considerable”
“a thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends to do otherwise”.
Leopold’s “land ethic”
"land ethic morality is the next stage of man’s ethical evolutionary development—moving towards seeing things less individualistically, but in a more holistically."
Callicott, “The Conceptual
Foundations of the Land
Ethic”
“environmental ethics is not a
muddle; it is an invitation to moral
development”
Rolston, “Challenges in
Environmental
Ethics”
"human being should look at the self as an extension of nature, where the human ego would be identified with nature."
Arne Naess
“Respect and care for self is
tantamount to respect and
care for
nature—self-realization.”
Arne Naess
"the poor are not all concerned with intrinsic value of nature and its species or the quality of life; survival is their main concern."
Ramachandra Guha of India
"the poor are not all concerned with intrinsic value of nature and its species or the quality of life; survival is their main concern."
Ramachandra Guha of India
“ until human beings cease to live in societies that are structured around hierarchies as well as economic classes, we shall never be free of domination”
Murray Bookchin
