An overview of Jeremy Bentham's ethical views on animal rights, including the famous quote “the question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”
“Can They Suffer?”: Bentham on our Obligations to Animals
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Reason is the Slave to the Passions: Hume on Reason vs. Desire
An introduction to David Hume's theory of rationality and his famous quote that it's “not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.”
“Nasty, Brutish, and Short”: Hobbes on Life in the State of Nature
An introduction to Thomas Hobbes and his views on life in the State of nature, including his quote that life in that state would be “Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology 