Frans de Waal Citas

• Dotar a los animales de emociones humanas ha sido durante mucho tiempo un tabú científico. Pero si no lo hacemos, corremos el riesgo de perdernos algo fundamental, tanto de los animales como de nosotros.

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  Naturaleza, Ciencia, Animal

  "Are We in Anthropodenial?" by Frans de Waal, discovermagazine.com. July 1, 1997.

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• El enemigo de la ciencia no es la religión... . El verdadero enemigo es la sustitución del pensamiento, la reflexión y la curiosidad por el dogma.

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  Reflection, Curiosity, Enemy

  Frans de Waal (2013). “The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

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  Inspiración, Motivación, Ojo

  Frans de Waal (2007). “Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes”, p.3, JHU Press

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• Descuidar el terreno común con otros primates y negar las raíces evolutivas de la moral humana sería como llegar a la cima de una torre para declarar que el resto del edificio es irrelevante, que el preciado concepto de "torre" debería reservarse para la cima.

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  Raíces, Llegar, Serían

  Frans de Waal (2009). “Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved”, p.181, Princeton University Press

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• We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.

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  Hungry, Chimpanzees, Brutal

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• You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.

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  Order, People, Empathy

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• La posibilidad de que la empatía resida en partes del cerebro tan antiguas que las compartimos con las ratas debería hacer reflexionar a cualquiera que compare a los políticos con esas pobres criaturas subestimadas.

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  Giving, Empathy, Brain

  "Do Humans Alone 'Feel Your Pain'?". The Chronicle, October 26, 2001.

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• Los pilares más sólidos de la moralidad humana son la compasión y el sentido de la justicia.

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  Compasión, Justicia, Pilares

  "Monkeys Join Wall Street Protest" by Frans de Waal, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2011.

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• A veces intento imaginar qué habría pasado si hubiéramos conocido primero al bonobo y después al chimpancé, o si no lo hubiéramos conocido. Tal vez el debate sobre la evolución humana no giraría tanto en torno a la violencia, la guerra y la dominación masculina, sino más bien en torno a la sexualidad, la empatía, la solidaridad y la cooperación. ¡Qué paisaje intelectual tan diferente ocuparíamos!

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  Caring, Empathy, Intellectual

  Frans de Waal (2006). “Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are”, p.41, Penguin

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• I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs many group members to be on his side.

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  Support, Allies, Males

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• Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.

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  Humanity, Wish, Robins

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• The more self-aware an animal is, the more empathetic it tends to be.

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  Animal, Self, Empathetic

  "My bright idea: humans found a nicer way to evolve". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2010.

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• Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse. The sight of monkeys or apes induces an irresistible urge in people to jump up and down, exaggeratedly scratch themselves and holler in a way that must make the primates wonder how this otherwise so intelligent species has come to depend on such inferior means of communication.

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  Communication, Mean, Intelligent

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• I call the notion that we are nothing but killer apes the Beethoven fallacy. Beethoven was disorganized and messy, and yet his music is the epitome of order.

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  Order, Killers, Apes

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• La gente quiere trabajar con alguien que sienta vergüenza, que se preocupe por la percepción de los demás. La deshonestidad es algo que no nos gusta en los demás.

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  People, Worry, Perception

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• Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.

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  Long, Body, Arms

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• We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

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  Animal, Earth, Conflict

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• Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions. The appropriate reaction may not be to cry when another person cries, but to reassure them, or even to leave them alone.

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  Empathy, Feelings, Different

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• Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring.

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  Mother, Successful, Empathy

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• You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society. Of course, I'm not saying that you can derive moral rules from nature - that's deriving an ought from an is, as the philosophers say - but you do need to know what kind of animals we are if you want to design a stable society.

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  Animal, Hands, Design

  "Frans de Waal on Political Apes, Science Communication, and Building a Cooperative Society". Interview with Eric Michael Johnson, blogs.scientificamerican.com. July 11, 2011.

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• Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

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  Belief, Behavior, Persons

  Frans de Waal (2013). “The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates”, p.5, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

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  Rewards, Human Nature, Socialism

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• La moralidad, después de todo, no tiene nada que ver con el desinterés. Al contrario, el interés propio es precisamente la base del imperativo categórico.

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  Yo, Moralidad, Imperativo Categórico

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• Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

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  Poor, Advantage, Listeners

  Frans de Waal (2013). “The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

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• War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

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  War, Cost, Benefits

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