Eva Meijer

and we should view rationality not as something you either have or do not have, but rather as something you can have more or less of.

Defining language as exclusively human is usually interconnected with seeing a clear break between humans and other animals (Aaltola 2013; Derrida 2008, 2009, 2011). This does not refer to a biological (Darwin 1872) or universal (Derrida 2008) truth, but springs from cultural practices in a discourse that sees humans as more important than other animals, and as the standard by which non-human animals are measured (Calarco 2008, 2015; Derrida 2008).

current studies in moral psychology show that much of our moral behavior is habitual and instinctive