
HoP 235 - Juhana Toivanen on Animals in Medieval Philosophy
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Are Human Beings Moral Agents?
The moral side of the story is that's pretty clear. Human beings are different from what they're almost just because we are capable of acting morally or immorally for all that. So animals are not free. They don't have a free will. When they see something desirable, they immediately go for it. But human beings may reflect whether it would be right to grasp that desirable thing at this moment. And this makes us moral agents. On the other side, the political side,. I mean that's kind of interesting because medieval philosophers had access to Aristotle's politics where Aristotle argues that human beings are more political than other animals. Like bees and cranes and ants. Cranes are a
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