Wish for privacy for certain biological functions. Dualism. Great chain of being. Bestial being negative etc.
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Ppl don't literally deny mammalian properties. They can't. They present animal status, carnality, biology as bad
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It's not that they deny that humans have mammalian traits, they insist we have "something more"...
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There is our capacity of λόγος or reason, which obviously DOES set us apart from other animals.
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Birds have a capacity for flight that sets them apart from non-flying creatures. Doesn't make them..
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.. "not-animals". Yes humans are smarter than other animals. Doesn't make us a unique category.
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Who was it who said 'We are unique but not uniquely unique?' Yet we separate into human & animal.
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And we verbalise this in all kinds of narratives.Lindsay argues its partly to do w fear of mortality
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Don't want to see ourselves as just another animals who is born, eats, procreates, ages & dies.
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