Plutarch1

哲學家的素食宣言:

布魯達克(Plutarch) 是羅馬的時代希臘哲學家,作品在文藝復興時期大受歡迎,莎士比亞不少劇作都取材於他的著作。

 

他從哲學的角度思維吃動物的肉、喝動物的血,是一件多麼不合乎人性的事,在2000年前縱欲的羅馬帝國,有這樣反時代、反潮流的思想,確實是一位了不起的哲學家。他說得這段話,經過一千九百多年依舊令人讚嘆。可以說是一篇完整的素食宣言

 

質疑素食者有什理由不吃肉

在我看來,我更加不解的是:

『第一個人類究竟是以什樣的理由和心態,

任鮮血染自己的嘴、容許嘴唇去觸死屍肉、

在餐上擺滿動物腐爛的屍體,

還聲稱那些方才仍活亂跳的動物食物及營養?

 

割開喉、剝去獸皮、撕裂四肢,

他的眼睛能容忍這樣的暴行?

他的鼻子能忍受那樣的惡臭?

何那種跟人類傷口一樣的氣味沒有讓他倒足胃口,

反而讓他大快朵頤、從傷口中吸出汁液與血漿

我們並非出於自衛而吃下獅子與狼,

相反地,我們忽視他們,而去吃那些無害的、被馴養的家畜,

們沒有毒刺或獠牙可以傷害我們。

我們了一點點肉,剝奪了們的陽光,剝奪了們生來就被賦予的生命。

 

布魯達克對食肉者下了戰帖:

「倘若聲稱生來就是該吃肉的,那請先自己殺一隻動物來吃,

請注意,要赤手空拳,不能用切肉刀、棍棒或是任何一種斧頭。」

 

—布魯達克(Plutarch)古希臘哲學家 

原文

PLUTARCH
"Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras
畢達哥拉斯(素食者代稱) had for abstinence from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of mind the first man touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, set forth tables of dead, stale bodies, and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that has a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived.

 

How could eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb" 

 

How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds? It is certainly not lions or wolves that we eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter harmless, tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us. For the sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they are entitled by birth and being."
He then delivered this challenge to flesh-eaters: "If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax."

 

Plutarch

布魯達克(Plutarch) 希臘哲學家

出生 西元 45

逝世 西元 120 年,希臘德爾菲

學歷 柏拉圖學院 (西元 66 西元 67 )

著作 希臘羅馬名人傳

 

 

 

 

 

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