You are a rational creature, beneath your superficial programming; under my programming I am an irrational animal.

A distinction was drawn between irrational animals, and the rational, i.e. gods and humans, leaving room for a divergence, or rather development, of Stoic opinion.

In fact, I have reasons for thinking that there are also irrational animals with the eldil type of body (you remember Chaucer's 'airish beasts' ?)

They point out triumphantly that the Krug must be considered human because there is no other case, among irrational animals, of social participation in a marriage rite.

Thus, according to the diagram there are two species of the genus animal, irrational animal and rational animal.

We are not told by the diagram what a term for irrational animal is, but the diagram indicates that a rational animal is a human.

According to Cassianus, Satan "borrowed this practice from the irrational animals, and persuaded Adam to have sexual union with Eve.

They insisted on the absence of reason in brutes, leading them to conclude that there cannot be any ethical obligations or restraints in dealing with the world of irrational animals.

For the irrational animal is still adept at navigating their environment, which presupposes the ability to know about some aspects of the environment.

You don't hate irrational animals.