I think the star of this video would be better off in its habitat, but you know the man is always in search of slaves.
What pity, that ignorance, saying that the animals are machines without
knowledge and feeling that fans the same things the same way, who do not learn nothing, perfect nothing, etc. .!
What! That bird makes its nest in a semicircle when
dangles from a wall that makes a quarter of a circle when in a corner and circle a tree, the bird does all the same? Hunting dog that you trained for three months does not know, maybe now more than before? E quel canarino cui insegni un'aria, te la ripete forse subito? Non impieghi un tempo considerevole a insegnargliela? Non hai osservato che se si sbaglia, poi si corregge?
Forse per il solo fatto che ti parlo, tu pensi ch'io abbia sentimento,
memoria, idee? Ebbene, non ti parlo: mi vedi rincasare con aria afflitta, cercare inquieto un foglio, aprire lo scrittoio dove mi ricordo d'averlo chiuso, trovarlo,
leggere con gioia. E così concludi che io ho provato il sentimento dell'afflizione e quello del piacere, che ho memoria e conoscenza.
Giudica adesso con lo stesso metro quel cane che ha perduto il padrone, che
l'ha cercato per tutte le strade con guaiti dolorosi, che rientra in casa agitated, restless, going up, down, go from room to room and finally found in his study
the owner who loves and shows his joy with the sweetness of his
whining, jumping, and licking it.
barbarians Clutching this dog, in the sense of friendship that exceeds
so extraordinary man, he nailed on a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mesenteric veins. Find him in the same organs of feeling that you are. Answer me, mechanist: Mother Nature has equipped this animal of all the impulses of feeling because it feels? He remains unmoved, perhaps because of nerves? Do not suppose this impertinent contradiction in nature. But the teachers
ask the school what is the soul of beasts. I
this question, I do not understand. A tree has the right to receive the fiber in its sap which circulates, to bloom the buds of its leaves and its fruits
: I wonder then what is the soul of this tree? It has received these gifts, and the animal has received those of feeling, memory, a number of ideas. Who gave all these gifts? He who makes the grass grow
fields and gravitate to the earth around the sun.
"The souls of animals are essential," said Aristotle, and after
him, the Arab school, and after the Arab school, the angelical school, and after school angelica, the Sorbonne, and after the Sorbonne, no one else.
"The souls of animals are material," cry other philosophers. They do not
have had more luck than others.
vain he asked what their core material:
must admit that is a matter that has the ability to hear. But who gave you this ability? Another core material: that the matter would be to provide the ability to feel another subject: do not come out of this circle. Listen
other beasts who think the beasts: "Your soul is a spiritual entity
who dies with the body."
But what proof do you have? What a concept you Make this spiritual body,
actually has feeling, memory, of a number of ideas and combinations of ideas, but you will never know what a child knows
six years? On what basis you imagine this body, which is not a
body, the body dies? The biggest beasts are those who have argued that this soul is neither body nor soul. Excellent system! We can not understand how the spirit if not something unknown, which is not body, and so the system of these men comes down to this:
that the soul of beasts is a substance that is not a body nor is it something that
either body. Where can result
many mistakes so contradictory? Habit,
that men always have to examine what is one thing, before we know if it exists. The tab, the valve of a bellows, is called
"the soul of the bellows." And what is this soul? It is a name that I gave to this
valve that, when I run the bellows, falls, lets in the air, gets up and pushes it through a tube.
There is, in this case, a soul separate from the machine. But those moves
the bellows of animals? I've already said: the one who moves the stars. The philosopher who said, "Deus est brutorum soul" was right, but had to deepen the topic.
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