David Attenborough vs. J. Howard Moore
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
David Attenborough
1926 – present
Sir David Frederick Attenborough is a British broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and writer. His career began as host of Zoo Quest in 1954, and has spanned eight decades; it includes the nine nature documentary series forming The Life Collection, Natural World, Wildlife on One, the Planet Earth franchise, The Blue Planet and Blue Planet II. He is the only person to have won BAFTA Awards in black-and-white, colour, high-definition, 3D and 4K resolution.
"The Roman public's thirst for blood and pleasure in witnessing pain seems to have been unquenchable and without limit." "The caged animals were kept in dungeons…"
J. Howard Moore
1862 – 1916
John Howard Moore was an American zoologist, philosopher, educator, and social reformer. He is best known for his advocacy of ethical vegetarianism and his pioneering role in the animal rights movement, both informed by his ethical interpretation of Darwin's theory of evolution. Moore's most influential work, The Universal Kinship (1906), outlined a sentientist philosophy he termed the doctrine of Universal Kinship, arguing that ethical regard for animals—rooted in the Golden Rule—is essential to human moral progress. He urged the extension of moral concern to all sentient beings, based on their shared evolutionary and psychological continuity with humans.
"The twofold function of individual culture is so to develop beings that they shall be able to perceive their proper relations to the rest of the uiniverse, to t…"
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