I don’t own a pet or any other animal, but I suspect literally any pet-owner disagrees.
It doesn’t take more than a Twitter-Account to learn that animals do experience pride, envy or resentment etc.
Never understood the vehemence with which some philosophers hold on to this
It doesn’t take more than a Twitter-Account to learn that animals do experience pride, envy or resentment etc.
Never understood the vehemence with which some philosophers hold on to this
Quote from David Carr, Spirituality, spiritual sensibility and human growth, Int J Philos Relig (2018) 83:245–260, 249.
Full quote for who can’t read it in the picture above: „While human agents share with their non-human cousins, feelings and reactions describable as fear, anger and sexual desire, the latter do not—lacking the language through which such emotions are possible—experience pride,
envy, resentment, gratitude or sympathy. By the same token, they also lack the sensibilities and capacities for respect, admiration, honour, celebration and reverence.
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