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Ethics concerns right relationship with others and the world around us. I want to suggest that sympathy as found in all primates is the primordial origin of human ethics. Darwinian continuity establishes an inti-mate relationship between humans and other animals: Human nature is a part of nature as a whole. Recognizing this relationship is a worthy educational ideal; it helps curb excessive anthropocentrism by putting us in our proper place.
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Garrison, J. (2016). Overcoming Veneer Theory: Animal Sympathy. In: Rice, S., Rud, A.G. (eds) The Educational Significance of Human and Non-Human Animal Interactions. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137505255_11
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