Has anyone here read Richard Dawkins' "A Devil's Chaplain"?



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送交者: psycho 于 2005-12-01, 08:49:25:

Yesterday I remotely remembered that he had wrote a chapter in a book edited by Peter Singer (for those who don't know, he is the Godfather in Animal Rights), which is also collected in the book mentioned in the title. But I couldn't remember the name(?!) or other details.

And I did found it. The article is a call for reconsidering our human Chauvinistic ethical standard (especially to apes). I can not refute as he build his argument in a field he know excessively while I am ignorant. But I am not comfortable for as I want animals are treated decently, I am still a human Chauvinist. However, the article's main idea--a continuous rather than a dichotomic view of the world, had won my heart so subconciously (contributed a lot to my, ah, PHILOSOPHY). I especially like this word:

"Ethical principles that are based upon accidental caprice should not be respected as if cast in stone."

The reason I mentioned it is that people supporting animal rights of some degree are not all passionate. Richard Dawkins' doubt on absolute human center criteria (he doesn't actually refute it, but he dislikes it being an unquestioned premise), like his passionate nostalgia on his country of birth, Kenya, is mainly based on his knownledge on zoology. Many people's arrogance doesn't help in arguing.




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