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Hoofdredacteur Pepijn L. Demortier publiceert het essay ‘No Good without Evil: G.W. Leibniz’s Reconciliation of Animal Suffering with God’ in Front Porch Republic, een lokalistische en communitaristisch Amerikaans magazine waarin het belang van concepten als gemeenschap, plaats, decentralisme en natuurbehoud wordt benadrukt.

No Good without Evil: G.W. Leibniz’s Reconciliation of Animal Suffering with God

“The ‘simple life’ involves not only renewed relationships with other humans but also a direct and intimate understanding of flora and fauna. The hunter comprehends the animal to its core. The same goes for the farmer or humble chicken keeper. Through their silent teachings, animals help us to frame, understand, and deepen our human nature.

Animals, like humans, are animate beings. However, humans and animals differ from each other in a remarkable number of ways: from their intelligence, behavioral flexibility, and cognitive and emotive capacities, to the limits of their free will…”

Lees het volledige artikel via deze link.

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