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Ep. 6: Dr. Patrick Lee: What Does it Really Mean to be a Human Being?

The Moral Imagination

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Why Do Cows Have Reason?

"Why is reason the cutoff point?" he asks. "How do we know that when the cows have reason or not? I think the actions that they perform are completely explainable by reference to perception and instinct"? The unborn child doesn't have the actuality to exercise his or her reason, but they're the kind of thing that we call a person,. And so that, and there's our response."

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