May
20
/ 2022
Unlike Aristotle who viewed animals as irrational creatures with lower moral standing, sent to earth solely to serve humans, Pythagoras regarded them highly and proposed that animals had reincarnated human souls. When Pythagoras saw someone beating a dog, he told him to stop because he recognized a friend's voice in the yelping of the dog. Following the philosophy of Pythagoras, it is no surprise that animals and humans have coexisted for centuries. Archaeologists have discovered the earliest evidence of domesticated dogs in the Middle East at the ancient temple of Gōbekli Tepe in Turkey, which dates between approximately 9500 and 8000 BC. Footprints of a young child walking alongside a dog have been preserved in the earth for more than
