Animals: a history

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This volume traces the history of animals in philosophy, from antiquity down to contemporary times. Negative attitudes towards animals, as found in Aristotle and Descartes, turn out to be more nuanced than usually supposed, while remarkable discussions of animal welfare appear in late antiquity, India, the Islamic world, and Kant.

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Full title :Animals : a history / edited by Peter Adamson and G. Fay Edwards.

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Publication Date:2018

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018

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Description:1 online resource (xiv, 454 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:9780199375981, 0199375984, 9780199375998, 0199375992
oclc:on1022078869
LC Classification:B105.A55
Dewey Decimal:113/.8

Cover; Animals: A History; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; List of Contributors; Animals; Epigraph; Introduction; Plates; Chapter One. Aristotle on Animals; Animal Psychology; Aristotle's Ethology; Animal Locomotion and Voluntary Action; Theophrastus on the Ethical Treatment of Animals; Chapter Two. Reincarnation, Rationality, and Temperance: Platonists on Not Eating Animals; Reincarnation: Vegetarianism for the Sake of Other Humans; Animal Rationality: Vegetarianism for the Sake of Nonhuman Animals; Syllogisms; Sense-Perception and Emotion.

What Does This Tell Us about Platonists' Views on Animal Rationality?Temperance: Vegetarianism for the Sake of Ourselves; Conclusion; Reflection: Listening to Aesop's Animals; Chapter Three. Illuminating Community: Animals in Classical Indian Thought; Rebirth as Grounds for Conceptions of Nonhuman Animals; Rebirth Articulating the Human by Comparison, Not Contrast; ... But Can We Eat Them?; Fables; Conclusion; Reflection: The Joy of Fish and Chinese Animal Painting; Chapter Four. Human and Animal Nature in the Philosophy of the Islamic World; The God's-Eye View; Two Three-Part Souls.

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