Writing on this from the Christian historical perspective for my Animals in Religion class this week, actually. c.f. Andrew Linzey, Animal Theology:
p 13: "Aquinas answers in a line almost entirely taken over from Aristotle... 'Dumb animals and plants are devoid of the life of reason... they are naturally enslaved and accommodated to the uses of others.'"
p 15: "Aquinas' doctrine has become the dominant Western position on animals since the thirteenth century. Those in any doubt about this should consult Keith Thomas' excellent survey entitled Man and the Natural World. Only in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries do we find Aquinas seriously challenged." (Linzey goes on to cite the challenges/ers)
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p 13: "Aquinas answers in a line almost entirely taken over from Aristotle... 'Dumb animals and plants are devoid of the life of reason... they are naturally enslaved and accommodated to the uses of others.'"
p 15: "Aquinas' doctrine has become the dominant Western position on animals since the thirteenth century. Those in any doubt about this should consult Keith Thomas' excellent survey entitled Man and the Natural World. Only in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries do we find Aquinas seriously challenged." (Linzey goes on to cite the challenges/ers)
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