Newtonmas Dinner : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Newtonmas Dinner / BinaryApe
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| 説明 | The mashed potatoes were a bit too creamy.Isaac Newton was born on 25 December 1642."There is in man a disposition to compassion as generally diffused as his other instincts. Newton had cultivated this sentiment of humanity, and he extended it to lower animals. With Locke he was strongly convinced that God has given to them a proportion of ideas, and the same feelings which he has to us. He could not believe that God, who has made nothing in vain, would have given to them organs of feeling in order that they might have no feeling.He thought it a very frightful inconsistency to believe that animals feel and at the same time to cause them to suffer. On this point his morality was in accord with is philosophy. He yielded but only with repugnance to the barbarous custom of supporting ourselves upon the blood and flesh of beings like ourselves, whom we caress, and he never permitted in his own house the putting them to death by slow and exquisite modes of killing for the sake of making the food more delicious. This compassion, which he felt for no other animals, culminated in true charity for men. In truth, without humanity, a virtue which comprehends all virtues, the name of philosopher would be little deserved. (Voltaire, Elements de la Philosophie de Newton, 1741, V., quoted in Howard Williams, The Ethics of Diet, University of Illinois Press, 2003, p. 145).(According to Wikipedia, Newton had people executed for forgery, so that compassion did have limit...) |
| 撮影日 | 2009-12-25 14:37:28 |
| 撮影者 | BinaryApe , Manchester, UK |
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| カメラ | Canon DIGITAL IXUS 700 , Canon |
| 露出 | 0.017 sec (1/60) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.9 |
| 焦点距離 | 10816.90141 dpi |