1. The Canterbury Tales: The Prologue
It is a common idea that the foundation of human sentience and thus their acknowledgement for a moral status is based on many characteristics - sex for pleasure, ability to communicate within the species, and family ties, to name a few, however none of these seem independent to human beings. Our sentience comprises of physical and emotional experiences, and it follows that pleasure makes up half of the spectrum of sentient experiences. ... If there is a moral divide between humans and animals, it must hold that animals lack something that humans possess, however this is hard to identity given ...
To Freud the physical origin of religious ideas is that they are the fulfilment of the oldest and strongest wished of humankind and for that reason they are illusions. ... Freud dismisses religion simply because some of the characteristics that are held over from childhood are transferred to one's feelings about God, a dismissal that is an unfair and unwarranted assessment. ...
