Today Sunday, reading the newspaper El Pais, I found the article I give you below. It has been my source of joy to find mention of "mirror neurons" in this article, as in the previous post, Myr and talks about the role that human behavior developed.
Although the author of this paper applies the reasoning about compassion to animals should be logical to understand that, who does not love his neighbor distance is to love animals.
The triumph of compassion
The world is full of atrocities against humans and nonhumans, but the sad fact does not justify bullfighting. The tradition can not be used as ethical justification for a cruel practice
Mosterín JESUS, THE COUNTRY DIARY
09/05/2010
Compassion is the unpleasant emotion we feel when we imaginatively in the place of another to suffer, and suffer with him, I sympathize. We have begun to understand the mechanism of compassion through Giacomo Rizzolatti, discoverer of mirror neurons, that fire in our brains as well when we do or feel certain things like when we see that other do or feel. Mirror neurons in the insula was shot and produced in us a painful feeling when we see another suffer. This ability can be exercised and refined or, conversely, blunted by disuse.
All abominations, unfair or cruel where it is traditional practice
El Chile admired by Vargas Llosa runs banned two centuries ago, at the same time that slavery
Enlightenment thinkers from Adam Smith to Jeremy Bentham, put the compassion in the heart of their concerns. David Hume thought that compassion is the fundamental moral emotion (along with self-love.) Charles Darwin considered the most noble compassion of our virtues. Opposed to slavery and horrified by the cruelty of the Tierra del Fuego in Patagonia with strangers, he introduced his idea of \u200b\u200bexpanding circle of compassion to explain the moral progress of mankind. The most primitive men are only sorry for his friends and relatives, then this feeling would spread to other groups, nations, races and species. Darwin thought that the circle of compassion will spread until it reaches its logical conclusion, that is, until it encompasses all creatures capable of suffering.
Indian thought, particularly Buddhism and Jainism, believe that ahimsa (non-violence, non-cruelty, compassion towards all sentient creatures) is the central principle of ethics. In contrast to the silence of the Catholic hierarchy, the Dalai Lama has publicly demanded the abolition of bullfighting. King Juan Carlos, and panned by its continued hunting, can not think of anything else to go now in defense of bullfighting. Had better identify with his predecessor illustrated Carlos III, which banned bullfights with the cumbersome and absolutist Fernando VII, which promoted.
Knowledge facilitates empathy. As I said Francis Crick (who discovered the double helix), the only authors who doubt the pain of dogs are those who have no dog. Many English did not doubt the suffering of the dogs or bulls. When a degenerate cut with a chainsaw paws of dogs from the pound of Tarragona and left to bleed to death, more than half a million English affixed their signatures in a petition to Congress demanding the introduction of animal abuse in the Penal Code . In Catalonia, the polls indicate a majority in favor of the abolition of bullfighting, the Catalan Parliament requested more than 200,000 signatures. I know a number of petition signers, all they did out of compassion, none of nationalism.
To read the full article: nibs
Although the author of this paper applies the reasoning about compassion to animals should be logical to understand that, who does not love his neighbor distance is to love animals.
The triumph of compassion
The world is full of atrocities against humans and nonhumans, but the sad fact does not justify bullfighting. The tradition can not be used as ethical justification for a cruel practice
Mosterín JESUS, THE COUNTRY DIARY
09/05/2010
Compassion is the unpleasant emotion we feel when we imaginatively in the place of another to suffer, and suffer with him, I sympathize. We have begun to understand the mechanism of compassion through Giacomo Rizzolatti, discoverer of mirror neurons, that fire in our brains as well when we do or feel certain things like when we see that other do or feel. Mirror neurons in the insula was shot and produced in us a painful feeling when we see another suffer. This ability can be exercised and refined or, conversely, blunted by disuse.
All abominations, unfair or cruel where it is traditional practice
El Chile admired by Vargas Llosa runs banned two centuries ago, at the same time that slavery
Enlightenment thinkers from Adam Smith to Jeremy Bentham, put the compassion in the heart of their concerns. David Hume thought that compassion is the fundamental moral emotion (along with self-love.) Charles Darwin considered the most noble compassion of our virtues. Opposed to slavery and horrified by the cruelty of the Tierra del Fuego in Patagonia with strangers, he introduced his idea of \u200b\u200bexpanding circle of compassion to explain the moral progress of mankind. The most primitive men are only sorry for his friends and relatives, then this feeling would spread to other groups, nations, races and species. Darwin thought that the circle of compassion will spread until it reaches its logical conclusion, that is, until it encompasses all creatures capable of suffering.
Indian thought, particularly Buddhism and Jainism, believe that ahimsa (non-violence, non-cruelty, compassion towards all sentient creatures) is the central principle of ethics. In contrast to the silence of the Catholic hierarchy, the Dalai Lama has publicly demanded the abolition of bullfighting. King Juan Carlos, and panned by its continued hunting, can not think of anything else to go now in defense of bullfighting. Had better identify with his predecessor illustrated Carlos III, which banned bullfights with the cumbersome and absolutist Fernando VII, which promoted.
Knowledge facilitates empathy. As I said Francis Crick (who discovered the double helix), the only authors who doubt the pain of dogs are those who have no dog. Many English did not doubt the suffering of the dogs or bulls. When a degenerate cut with a chainsaw paws of dogs from the pound of Tarragona and left to bleed to death, more than half a million English affixed their signatures in a petition to Congress demanding the introduction of animal abuse in the Penal Code . In Catalonia, the polls indicate a majority in favor of the abolition of bullfighting, the Catalan Parliament requested more than 200,000 signatures. I know a number of petition signers, all they did out of compassion, none of nationalism.
To read the full article: nibs
0 comments:
Post a Comment