Thomistic Animals
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Animal Cognition Writer & Philosopher PhD documenting my adventures, musings, and animal insights here. What’s the estimative got to do with it? Everything dear
Joined January 2024
“If a #lion could #speak, we could not understand him.”. -Ludwig #Wittgenstein. #talkinganimals.#animals
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Slow clap for a dumb story about a species that most people already know what they do: eating carcasses.
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RT @CincinnatiZoo: The tilapia in Hippo Cover are there to help keep the water clean. They eat the hippo dung as well as eat the dead skin….
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Trail cam from a few nights ago when we put out chicken bones, after removing the meat to freeze the rotisserie:. Time is pretty accurate but not the date:
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“when the passion of anger is aroused in a dog, it must necessarily bark & pursue to harm [that thing or being that causes the anger]. But human beings are not necessarily moved by the things that occur to them, or by passions that have been aroused, because they can accept or
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“Thus, by the sight of a particular thing or by an emotion that is aroused they must necessarily move and flee or seek something…”. —Aquinas, DV Q24, A2, co.
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“A monster': Fishermen catch massive shark off Connecticut coast”.
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The Thresher shark the men caught was nearly 16-feet long.
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“For [animals] can do something when they judge that something is to be done, or not do something when they do not judge [that something is to be done]. But since their judgment is determined to one particular thing, the appetite and the action are consequently determined by one
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“And, singularly, there is in [animals] some likeness of free choice, inasmuch as they can do or not do one and the same thing according to their judgment, and in this way there is in them some sort of limited freedom.”. —Aquinas DV Q24, A2, co.
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Sometimes what comes around goes around:.
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Quite the swimmer!!!.
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“Hence, only in [human beings] free choice is found to a full degree. Brutes, however, possess some likeness of reason inasmuch as they possess a certain natural prudence…The likeness exists with regard to the fact that they possess an orderly judgment about certain things.”
“The judgment, however, is in the power of the one who judges insofar as he can judge about his own judgment, for we can judge about what is in our power. However, judging about one’s own judgment belongs to reason alone.”. —Aquinas, De Veritate 24.2, co.
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😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂.
Social media is fun. The same post will be liked, seconds apart, by a reputable PhD from a prestigious university using his real name/headshot and also by “Beefsteak Destroyer 4000” whose profile picture is a claymation barbarian riding a pterodactyl. And the latter might.
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Sometimes I think people follow me expecting only cute animal videos & that I’d tow the current party line that “They’re just like us, only differ in degree.”. Then they find out I’m actually going to philosophize about animals:
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