Tradition
Vegetarianism
Overview
practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat
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Later on, towards the middle of my life, I grew more and more opposed to alcoholic drinks: I, an opponent of vegetarianism, who have experienced what vegetarianism is,--just as Wagner, who converted me back to meat, experienced it,--cannot with sufficient earnestness advise all more _spiritual_ natures to abstain absolutely from alcohol. Water answers the purpose.... I have a predilection in favour of those places…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen
States what Vegetarianism is; names Vegetarianism twice.
For it has turned out, that when the Continental navvies live in the same style as their English competitors, they presently rise, more or less nearly, to a par with them in efficiency. And to this fact let us here add the converse one, to which we can give personal testimony based upon six months' experience of vegetarianism, that abstinence from meat entails diminished energy of both body and mind.
Herbert Spencer, Essays on education and kindred subjects
Names Vegetarianism.
The superior development of Aryans and Semites is, perhaps, attributable to the copious meat and milk diet of both races, more especially to the favorable influence of such food on the growth of children. As a matter of fact, the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico who live on an almost purely vegetarian diet, have a smaller brain than the Indians in the lower stage of barbarism who eat more meat and fish. At any rate…
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
Close in meaning to Vegetarianism; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Vegetarianism
- Hesiod
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Pierre Gassendi
- Peter Singer
- Aldous Huxley
- Porphyry of Tyre
- Empedocles
- Michael Tye (philosopher)
- James Rachels
- Nick Zangwill
- William O. Stephens
- Sotion (Pythagorean)
Related ideas
- Simon & Schuster
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- The Independent
- Animal
- Feminism
- Ācārāṅga Sūtra
- Hemachandra
- Ghent
- Hinduism
- Hindus
- Orphism
- President of India
- Japan
- James Joyce
- Harvard Law School
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jainism
- London
- Nonviolence
- Random House
- Harvard University
- Frankenstein
- Environmentalism
- Middle Ages
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.