Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
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Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals is a philosophical work by John Gray that critiques humanism and challenges beliefs in human progress, rationality, and moral exceptionalism.
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"The Dominant Animal"
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Homage to Santa Rosalia, or Why Are There So Many Kinds of Animals?
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Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
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Praise of the Creatures
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Target entity: Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals Target entity description: Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals is a philosophical work by John Gray that critiques humanism and challenges beliefs in human progress, rationality, and moral exceptionalism.
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A.
"The Dominant Animal"
"The Dominant Animal" is a book by biologists Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich that examines how human evolution, behavior, and ecological impact have made our species the planet’s dominant—and dangerously disruptive—force.
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B.
Reaching the Animal Mind
Reaching the Animal Mind is a book by animal behaviorist Karen Pryor that explores the science and practice of clicker training and positive reinforcement in animals.
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C.
All Thoughts Are Prey to Some Beast
"All Thoughts Are Prey to Some Beast" is a contemplative, atmospheric folk-rock song by Bill Callahan known for its poetic lyrics and slow-building, meditative arrangement.
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Homage to Santa Rosalia, or Why Are There So Many Kinds of Animals?
"Homage to Santa Rosalia, or Why Are There So Many Kinds of Animals?" is a classic 1959 essay by ecologist G. Evelyn Hutchinson that explores the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying the great diversity of animal species.
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E.
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe is Jane Goodall’s reflective memoir and scientific account of her decades-long field research and close relationships with wild chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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philosophical work ⓘ |
| argues |
belief in progress is a modern myth
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environmental degradation is rooted in humanism ⓘ history has no inherent moral direction ⓘ humans are driven largely by irrational forces ⓘ humans are not fundamentally different from other animals ⓘ science does not guarantee moral progress ⓘ secular humanism inherits Christian teleology ⓘ |
| author | John Gray ⓘ |
| compares | humans to other animals ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticizes |
Christian notions of human destiny
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Enlightenment optimism ⓘ Marxist belief in historical progress ⓘ belief in human progress ⓘ human exceptionalism ⓘ liberal humanism ⓘ rationalist humanism ⓘ |
| followedBy | Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia ⓘ |
| genre |
moral philosophy
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philosophy ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| hasPhilosophicalStance |
anti-humanism
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anti-progressivism ⓘ philosophical pessimism ⓘ |
| hasReception |
controversial
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widely discussed in contemporary philosophy ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Friedrich Nietzsche ⓘ George Santayana ⓘ James Lovelock ⓘ Martin Heidegger ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
animal ethics
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anthropocentrism ⓘ critique of humanism ⓘ critique of progress ⓘ environmentalism ⓘ human nature ⓘ pessimism ⓘ secular humanism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bleak view of human prospects
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integration of ecological thought into political philosophy ⓘ radical critique of humanism ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2002 ⓘ |
| publisher | Granta Books ⓘ |
| title | Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals self-link ⓘ |
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