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Ideas for 'works', 'Introduction to 'New Pragmatists'' and 'Being You'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / d. Biological ethics

23515	Human exceptionalism plagues biology, and most other human thinking [Seth]
	Full Idea: Human exceptionalism has repeatedly plagued biology, and has darkened the history of human thought everywhere.
	From: Anil Seth (Being You [2021], I.2)
	A reaction: I increasingly agree with this, as much in philosophy as in biology. We really need to get used to our place in evolution.

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

6559	Aristotle never actually says that man is a rational animal [Aristotle, by Fogelin]
	Full Idea: To the best of my knowledge (and somewhat to my surprise), Aristotle never actually says that man is a rational animal; however, he all but says it.
	From: report of Aristotle (works [c.330 BCE]) by Robert Fogelin - Walking the Tightrope of Reason Ch.1
	A reaction: When I read this I thought that this database would prove Fogelin wrong, but it actually supports him, as I can't find it in Aristotle either. Descartes refers to it in Med.Two. In Idea 5133 Aristotle does say that man is a 'social being'. But 22586!