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From The Higher Chronicle

October 20, 2009 on 5:07 pm | In General | No Comments

Donna Haraway is capturing a fundamental truth in the way way humans in modern western culture interact with animals.  It isn’t about human domination over the animal world, but humans and animals as companions on Earth.  Her request that we take a serious and new look at the relationship between humans and animals from both a cognitive and scientific perspective is laudable.  I also value curiosity and  the inquisitive nature of humans as “precious and fragile and not very nice virtue.”

Read more in the Higher Chronicle about Donna Haraway and three other articles in a series called:  Confronting the Animal: 4 Perspectives