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"Mankind are always predisposed to believe that any subjective feeling, not otherwise accounted for, is a revelation of some objective reality."

Just catching up on reading through the German country side.
#Ethics #Europe #Nonfiction #Travel

What a pleasure it was to hear Nuccio Ordine speak this morning at a literature festival that Barcelona is hosting this weekend.
Ordine's talk was intense, empowering and delightful. His life-long work is based around advocating for the humanities and liberal arts as a necessity for individual development in a society in a world that measures its worth based on capital growth.
I highly recommend checking him out.
I also got my book signed 😍

"A full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”

“All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.”

“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.”

But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbining the human race.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.