All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, not tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure, unchangeable, eternal law.

Jaina Sutras

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Man and animals

Source

Jaina Sutras

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

Ardhamagadhi

Time

500 BC 500s BC 4th century BC

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Original Citation

The Akaranga Sutra. c. 4th century BC, lecture 4, lesson 1.

Current Citation

Jaina Sutras, part 1, translated by Herman Jacobi. Gyan Publishing House, 2021, Akaranga sutra, lecture 4, lesson 1.

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A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest though poor.

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Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits

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Bertrand Russell
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Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
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Time
1948 1940s 20th century
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Russell, Bertrand. Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits. George, Allen and Unwin/Simon & Schuster, 1948, pt. 2, ch. 1.

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It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

Socrates

Quoted in Crito, by Plato

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Eye for an eye Retaliation Revenge Justice
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Socrates

Author

Plato
Source
Crito
Medium
Philosophical dialogue
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Precepts and axioms
Language
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Time
399 BC 390s BC 4th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Plato. Crito. 399 BCE.

Current Citation

Plato. "Crito." Plato: Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo, translated by Christopher Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy. Harvard University Press, 2017.