Thomas More (February 7, 1478 - July 6, 1535) on Animal Rights and Human Oppression(published by RevoltSource) |
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English Lawyer, Judge, Social Philosopher, Author, Statesman, and Noted Renaissance Humanist
: Venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, he was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532. He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, which describes the political system of an imaginary island state. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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“Among those foolish pursuers of pleasure they reckon all that delight in hunting, in fowling, or gaming: of whose madness they have only heard, for they have no such things among them.... Nor can they comprehend the pleasure of seeing dogs run after a hare, more than of seeing one dog run after another; for if the seeing them run is that which gives the pleasure, you have the same entertainment to the eye on both these occasions, since that is the same in both cases: but if the pleasure lies in seeing the hare killed and torn by the dogs, this ought rather to stir pity, that a weak, harmless and fearful hare should be devoured by strong, fierce, and cruel dogs.”
Source: "Utopia," by Thomas More, 1516. Book 2, Of the Traveling of the Utopians.
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