Are Animals Sentient?
Animal Ethics
APRIL 18, 2008
Here is a passage from John Rodman's classic essay "The Dolphin Papers," The North American Review 259 (spring 1974): 13-26, at 24: St. Augustine [354-430] had long ago decided that beasts were incapable of suffering pain, because otherwise God would be unjust. If (a) animals are sentient (i.e., Animals are innocent.
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