Sentences with phrase «only human affection»

But dogs need not only human affection to become balanced and happy.

Not exact matches

In fact, all my anxieties run in the opposite direction: that, in order to affirm the uniqueness of humanity within organic nature, as well as the unique moral obligations it entails, we will reject all evidence of intentionality, reason, or affection in animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as well.

The only human connection in his life is his mother (a superb Judith Roberts), whom he treats with slavish affection mixed with pity, revulsion, and guilt.

To say that basic human nature is not only non-violent but actually disposed toward love and compassion, kindness, gentleness, affection, creation, and so on does, of course, imply a general principle which must, by definition, be applicable to each individual human being.

For example it is only relatively recently that science enabled us to measure the raised levels of oxytocin — often referred to as the bonding hormone — in the blood of both humans and dogs when they are showing affection to each other.

Breed isn't the only factor that goes into affection levels; dogs who were raised inside a home with people around feel more comfortable with humans and bond more easily.

It's very common for dogs to exhibit some degree of intolerance toward their fellow canines but show only trust and affection for humans.

A Singapura cat is likely to treat strangers with a bit of caution at first, but only until they have established that the human is friendly, then they are liable to provide the stranger with a large sample of their affection.

Although Macbeth gets along with other dogs, cats, and pretty much everyone, he absolutely adores affection, so he would be fine being the only dog and the center of a human's attention.

JC comment: By the time of the IPCC SAR (circa 1995), not only did «parental affection» set in, but the whole issue became politicized in Madrid, with the political need to find at least «discernible» evidence of a human cause for warming.