Animals Have Souls
Do animals have souls? Do people have souls? There are many differing definitions for the soul, and how can you begin to answer any of these questions without a chosen definition? Clarence Darrow’s “The Myth Of the Soul” and my secondary sources will conclude that yes, animals do have souls, and in fact, to think that they do not is much harder to believe.
Jesus and Buddha praised vegetarianism because of a humans connectedness to all life (Jones-Hunt). Before eating meat became popular, many ethnicities had vegetarian traditions for this very reason, which is not widely known(Jones-Hunt). A number of humans have forgotten how we are “scientifically classified as mammals, animals, and primates”, we tend think of ourselves as better than other animals. (Jones-Hunt). A big part of the blame for this could land on the fact that we refer to ourselves as ‘human beings’, instead of a more accurate term ‘human animals’. This causes a lack of the caring and connected feeling to animals, and helps explain how humans have come taking the lives of animals thoughtlessly for our food. (Jones-Hunt). These individuals are often hypocrites, because countless people live side by side with pets like dogs and cats, and claim to love their pets (Jones-Hunt). They notice and see the different emotions their pet has every day, …show more content…
This would require some of our ancestors to have been without souls, and wouldn’t be able to tell from good or evil, and have been incapable of the attributes and habits people develop. This also would mean that a certain generation of children would be by contrast have the attributes of a human. According to Porter, this event happening would be one of the most absurd events in biological history on many
Do animals have souls? Do people have souls? There are many differing definitions for the soul, and how can you begin to answer any of these questions without a chosen definition? Clarence Darrow’s “The Myth Of the Soul” and my secondary sources will conclude that yes, animals do have souls, and in fact, to think that they do not is much harder to believe.
Jesus and Buddha praised vegetarianism because of a humans connectedness to all life (Jones-Hunt). Before eating meat became popular, many ethnicities had vegetarian traditions for this very reason, which is not widely known(Jones-Hunt). A number of humans have forgotten how we are “scientifically classified as mammals, animals, and primates”, we tend think of ourselves as better than other animals. (Jones-Hunt). A big part of the blame for this could land on the fact that we refer to ourselves as ‘human beings’, instead of a more accurate term ‘human animals’. This causes a lack of the caring and connected feeling to animals, and helps explain how humans have come taking the lives of animals thoughtlessly for our food. (Jones-Hunt). These individuals are often hypocrites, because countless people live side by side with pets like dogs and cats, and claim to love their pets (Jones-Hunt). They notice and see the different emotions their pet has every day, …show more content…
This would require some of our ancestors to have been without souls, and wouldn’t be able to tell from good or evil, and have been incapable of the attributes and habits people develop. This also would mean that a certain generation of children would be by contrast have the attributes of a human. According to Porter, this event happening would be one of the most absurd events in biological history on many