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<div class="heading">This is philosophy, something. What is this philosophy? Nonsense philosophy. That you protect your family but you eat the animal family.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Hegel|Philosophy Discussion on Hegel]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śyāmasundara: So far the social ethics are concerned, he says that these begin with the family, then they go to the society or community, and then finally the state. He says that the family is the single entity and is the thesis. The individual finds his real nature only in the presence of others.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What about the family of the animals? They have got family. What does he say? The tiger has got family—he has got his wife, cats.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: When man finds himself in the presence of his family members he is able to understand himself by relating with others. So...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Relations with others, just like you are a family man, you don't encroach upon other families, this is society law. So the animals, they have got their family. Family, what do you mean by family, husband, wife, also two children, that is family. So the animals, they have got. So why you encroach upon the animal family? What is his answer?</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Families, when they relate together in communities, are related by certain laws or rights, that one voluntarily abstains from killing and stealing from other families so that no one will do the same to him.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: So but...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is not applicable to the animal family?</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: No.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is philosophy. (chuckles) What kind of philosopher he is? Our, Lord Buddha preached that if you feel pain when somebody pinches you, you should not pinch (them). He does not say that you should not pinch a human being. Therefore his dharma is ahiṁsā paramo dharmaḥ. This is philosophy, something. What is this philosophy? Nonsense philosophy. That you protect your family but you eat the animal family. This Lord Buddha's philosophy has got meaning, but where is the meaning of this philosophy?</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Well, he doesn't consider the animal kingdom at all.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And he is a rascal. He is a rascal. A philosopher must be all-pervading(?). This is (indistinct).</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Yes, he purports to cover everything. He says that his philosophy is complete, that it covers everything.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then complete. (indistinct) complete.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: He says that one understands himself the more he relates to others, so eventually as he relates to the whole universe, then he understands himself perfectly.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Universe means his brother. And white men. That's all. (laughter) That is his universe. There is a Bengali verse, (Bengali), "My elder brother is good man, I am good man. All bad men (?). This philosophy. (Bengali-repeats saying).</p>
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