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Undergraduate Philosophy Taster Modules: Humans and Animals

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Venue: Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street

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These taster lectures are for offer holders only. 

Prof. Susan James

Room: MAL 541

Module: Philosophy and the art of Living

Week 5.  Humans and Animals

Humans, as many seventeenth-century philosophers conceived them, are subject to physical and moral laws.  Physically, there are things they can and cannot do.  Morally, there are things they ought and ought not to do.  Where do non-human animals fit into this picture?  Do we have moral relationships with other animal species?

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