Contrary to the cartesian ideas of the moral status of animals, Charles Darwin investigated into the social complexes of animals to show that within these, animals perform and solve their own various social dilemmas, proved by the recent research of cognitive ethology suggesting that some non-human animals construct symbolic representation and form their own language. In his book 'The Decent of Man', Darwin demonstrated otherwise to that of Descartes automaton animals that, although consciousness remains a problem for understand cognitive minds, animals possess a phenomenal consciou...

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" Paul Bloom holds a position that morality has its roots in human biology and it is shaped by social environment without the influence of any supernatural intervention. ... Bloom refutes the view that morality is a product of higher intelligence and sides with Darwin and many contemporary biologist and psychologists in "using natural selection to explain the human mind"(2014). ... By the time they are a toddlers, they already have certain amount of social experience. ... Bloom attributes such a behavior to influence of the social environment that shapes human conscious. ... As ...

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Darwin's theory of evolution seems to have held its ground. ... For those who are unfamiliar with the term, eugenics refers to a widespread social movement that encourages well-educated, affluent people to reproduce and discourages those less privileged from doing so. ...

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While reading Dennett he gives one more guideline I liked "You are free to preserve or create any religious {political, social etc.} creed you wish to, so long as it does not become a public menace. ... I too found my case on the "honesty" bases such as Darwin's hypothesis of the biological section....

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The former view of the city before a social metamorphosis. ... In de Waal's essay he states that "Charles Darwin...had warned in The Origin of the Species: " I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense including dependence of one being on another" (650). ...

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The answers to these questions are quite evident in the way human beings treat animals both socially and legally. ... The answers to these questions are quite evident in the way human beings treat animals both socially and legally. ... This is exemplified in Darwin's theory of Natural Selection. ...

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