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Single Idea 20857

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights]

Full Idea

There is no justice between us and other animals because of the dissimilarity between us and them.

Gist of Idea

Justice is irrelevant to animals, because they are too unlike us

Source

report of Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.129

A Reaction

[from lost On Justice Bk 1] What would he make of modern revelations about bonobos and chimpanzees? If there is great dissimilarity between some peoples, does that invalidate justice between them? He also said animals exist for our use.

Book Reference

'The Stoics Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B/Gerson,L.P. [Hackett 2008], p.124