{"id":4303,"date":"2018-08-20T19:45:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T19:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/20\/the-paradox-of-the-misanthropic-naturalist-animal-lover-2\/"},"modified":"2018-08-20T19:45:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T19:45:42","slug":"the-paradox-of-the-misanthropic-naturalist-animal-lover-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/20\/the-paradox-of-the-misanthropic-naturalist-animal-lover-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paradox of the Misanthropic Naturalist Animal Lover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">In the Judeo-Christian tradition, man and man alone among living things has a higher origin and a higher destiny. Made in the image and likeness of God, and the only creature so made, he comes from God and is called to return to God for his ultimate felicity and fulfillment. He is, to be sure, an animal, but one called to&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theosis_(Eastern_Christian_theology)#Western_attitudes\">theosis<\/a>&#0160;and thus an animal&#0160;<em>qualitatively<\/em>&#0160;different from every other type of animal.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">In that now languishing tradition, man had a calling, a vocation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">But God is dead, culturally speaking, at least among the the elites of the West, and since 1859 the qualitative superiority of the human animal is no longer much believed in. Man is back among the animals, &#39;in series&#39; with them, just another product of evolution, whose origin is measly and whose destiny is extinction. &#0160;Man on a naturalist construal is at best quantitatively superior to his non-human progenitors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher_stri\/2018\/08\/the-paradox-of-the-misanthropic-naturalist-animal-lover.html\">Read the whole thing<\/a> at <em>MavPhil StrictPhil<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Judeo-Christian tradition, man and man alone among living things has a higher origin and a higher destiny. Made in the image and likeness of God, and the only creature so made, he comes from God and is called to return to God for his ultimate felicity and fulfillment. He is, to be sure, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/20\/the-paradox-of-the-misanthropic-naturalist-animal-lover-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Paradox of the Misanthropic Naturalist Animal Lover&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}