![]() I'll add my favorite dog comparison: Emmanuel Levinas spent time during WW2 in a concentration camp, and wrote about a dog who would visit the camp as "Bobby, the last Kantian in Nazi Germany" because only that dog would recognize the universal humanity of all humans, even prisoners in the camp. People have already mentioned Socrates and Aristotle. ![]() with Ken Knisely, Jeffrey Bub, and Drew Arrowood. ![]() There are a few other philosophers who compare dogs and philosophers, but they're sporadic. The Philosophical Implications of Quantum Mechanics: No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed. Dogs were simply a good example of a creature who lives in society but doesn't actually partake in what we'd consider civilization. He thought being dog-like was valuable, but that had much more to do with rejecting civilization than actually thinking dogs are unique or better than any other animals. And his philosophy argued for such practices. He lived on the street, eschewed money, masturbated and shat in public, etc. "Kynic" came from "kynos" for "dog," and he was called a kynic because he choose to live without the comforts of civilization. ![]() Diogenes was a "kynic" (or "cynic," though the ancient Greek term had little in common with modern cynicism). Plato accepted the Parmenidean constraint that knowledge must be unchanging. Unfortunately, Diogenes wasn't an ancient pupper-lover (or at least not *just* a dog-lover). Many pre-Socratic philosophers thought that no logically coherent account.
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