you spoke of ancient philosophers and there is none on your list and civilization
a little patience I told you, it comes in due time! So we continue, citing physiologists, philosophers, scientists, humanists, everything is not limited to the stomach:
KAFKA Franz Kafka - 1883-1924: Czech writer of German expression.
- "Now I can observe you in peace: I will not eat you any more."
(watching fish in an aquarium).
KRISHNA The Mahābhārata
is a Sanskrit epic from Hindu mythology comprising ninety thousand stanzas divided into eighteen books. It is considered the greatest poem ever composed. It contains no less than 250 lines - fifteen times more than the Iliad -
"Needless to say, these innocent, healthy creatures are made for the love of life, when they are wanted to be killed by miserable sinners living in butcher shops?" For this reason, O monarch, O Yudhishthir, know that the refusal of meat is the greatest refuge of religion, of heaven, and of happiness. Refraining from hurting is the greatest of principles. There again, it is the greatest of penances. It is also the greatest of truths among all the proofs of affection. Meat cannot be removed from grass or wood or stone. Unless a living creature is killed, this cannot be done. So, you are at fault in eating flesh. (...) This man, who abstains from meat, is never put in awe, O king, by any creature. All creatures ask for his protection. He never causes worry for others, and he never has to become anxious. If no one eats flesh, then there is no one left to kill living things. The man who kills living things kills them for the good of the person who eats flesh. If the flesh is considered inedible, there is no longer any slaughter of living things. It is in the interest of the meat eater that the massacre of living beings is carried out in the world. Since then, oh you of great splendor, the lifespan has been shortened for the people who slaughter living creatures or are the causes of their slaughter; it is clear that the person who wishes his good must give up the consumption of meat entirely. (...) The buyer of the flesh realizes the himsâ [violence] by its richness: the one who eats the flesh does it by appreciating its flavor, the killer realizes the himsâ by tying and killing the animal. Thus, there are three forms of killing. Whoever brings the flesh or brings it for itself, who cuts the limbs of an animal, and whoever buys it, sells it, or cooks the meat and whoever eats it - all of these are to consider as meat eaters. "
- Mahâbhârata 13,115187.
eh yes! It's called a state of consciousness between good and evil!
"We make science with facts, like making a house with stones: but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a pile of stones is a house" Henri Poincaré