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Everyone appears to agree nowadays on the need for a revaluation of human values; but some think we must for the first time set man into his proper place in the whole of animal nature, while others are certain we need to reaffirm his special place outside the sphere of the merely natural. Whether the problem is one of abstract metaphysics or practical pedagogy, this issue is involved.
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Leo Strauss, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes, Oxford 1936, chap, ii, passim; cf., e. g., De cive, chap, v, art. 5: ’Nam primo, inter homines certamen est honoris et digni¬tatis; inter bestias non est: unde odium et invidia, ex quibus nascitur seditio et bellum, inter homines est, inter illas non est’.
Letters (ed. by Grieg), Oxford, 1932,1, 40, No. 16.
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Grene, M. (1974). On Some Distinctions between Men and Brutes. In: The Understanding of Nature. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2224-8_15
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