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				Arthur Schopenhauer Parerga and Paralipomena, Collection of Philosophical Essays Psychological Observations [1851] Arthur Schopenhauer, "Philosophical Observations," trans. T. Bailey Saunders [1st published in Parerga and Paralipomena, A Collection of Philosophical Essays (1851)] in "Religion: A Diaologue and Other Essays (London, 1890; Google Books: Online Library of Free eBooks). The conspicuousness of the will [to live] in lower order of animals explains the delight we take in dogs, apes, cats, et.; it is the entirely naive way in which they express themselves that give us so much pleasure. The sight of any free animal going about its business undisturbed, seeking its food, or looking after its young, or mixing in the company of its kind, all the time being exactly what it ought to be and can be—what a strange pleasure it gives us! Even if it is only a bird, I can watch it for a long time with delight; or a water rat or a hedgehog; or better still, a weasel, a deer or a stag, the main reasons why we take so much pleasure in looking at animals is that we like to see our own nature in such simplified form. There is only one mendacious being in the world, and that is man. Every other is true and sincere, and makes no attempt to conceal what it is, expressing its feelings just as they are.
	Animal Rights History Timeline: Victorian Age [1837-1901] [Victorian Age; Beginnings of the Anti-Vivisection Movement] [1778-1860] Arthur Schopenhauer [1819 [1818]] World as Will and Idea First Book, The World as Idea: Idea Subordinated to the Principle of Sufficient Reason: The Object of Experience and Science Fourth Book, The World as Will: Assertion and Denial of Will to Live Appendix: Criticism of the Kantian Philosophy Supplements to the First Book: The Doctrine of the Abstract Idea, or Of Thinking 5. On the Irrational Intellect 8. On the Theory of the Ludicrous 17. On Man's Need of Metaphysics Supplements to the Second Book: 20. Objectification of the Will in the Animal Organism Supplements to the Fourth Book 41. On Death and Its Relation to the Indestructibility of Our True Nature 47. On the Doctrine of the Denial of the Will to Live 50. Epiphilosophy [1840] On the Basis of Morality II. Critique of Kant's Basis of Ethics II. The Founding of Ethics [1851] Parerga and Paralipomena, A Collection of Philosophical Essays —Psychological Observations —The Christian System —On the Sufferings of the World —On Noise —On Human Nature						Animal Rights History Timeline: Victorian Age [1837-1901] [Victorian Age; Beginnings of the Anti-Vivisection Movement] [—Activists-Advocates-Authors] [—Victorian Animal Protection Law, Anti-Vivisection Legislation] [—Victorian Periodicals-Articles] [Abstinence from Animal Food] [Animal Rights Quotes] [Animal Rights Law] [Anti-Vivisection Quotes] [Humane Education, Teaching Children Kindness to Animals] [Hunting, Blood-Sports, Cruelty] [Poetry-Plays; Humane Poets] [Religion-Religious Quotes Sermons Against Animal Cruelty] [Souls, Immortality, Future Life] [Humanity-Justice-Kindness] [Intelligence-Reason-Emotion] [Make Compassion the Fashion; Beauty-Feathers-Fur-Leather] [Cruelty-Slavery of Aniamls] [Strait from the Horse's Mouth: Words from Animals Themselves] [Vegetarians-Vegans; Cruelty of Slaughter, Abstinence-Animals] A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M • N • O • P • Q • R • S • T • U • V • W • X • Y • Z [BCE-c485] Antiquity-BCE [c485-1450] Medieval [1450-1660] Renaissance [1660-1785] Enlightenment [1785-1837] Romantic Age [1837-1901] Victorian Age [1901-1945] 20thc-Modernism




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