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1 online resource (xiv, 454 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford philosophical concepts |
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Oxford philosophical concepts
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| Contents |
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 |
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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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Living as a HumanReflection: Of Rainbow Snakes and Baffling Buffalo: On a Central African Mask; Chapter Five. Marking the Boundaries: Animals in Medieval Latin Philosophy; Metaphysics; Psychology; Morality; Conclusion; Reflection Animal Intelligence: Examples of the Human-Animal Border in Medieval Literature; The Intelligent Animal; The Moral Animal; The Pious Animal; Reflection: Subversive Laughter in Reynard the Fox; Chapter Six. Animals in the Renaissance: You Eat What You Are; Eating Human Animals, or: Bodies against Souls; Eating Brute Animals, or: Becoming What You Eat |
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Conclusion: Defining Humanity through FoodChapter Seven. Animal Souls and Beast Machines: Descartes's Mechanical Biology; "Wisdom Gone Astray": The Historical Backdrop; The "Universal Instrument"; The Status of Animals; Conclusion; Chapter Eight. Kant on Animals; The Nature of Animals; Moral Obligation; Moral Obligation and the Dignity of Rational Beings; Kant's Rejection of Duties "to" Animals; Kant's Account of Duties "regarding" Animals; An Eighteenth-Century Alternative; Reflection The Gaze of the Ape: Gabriel von Max's Affenmalerei and the "Question of All Questions." |
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Chapter Nine. The Emergence of the Drive Concept and the Collapse of the Animal/ Human DivideEmbryology and the Bildungstrieb; Accounts of Animal and Human Behavior; The Traditional View; Introduction of a Third Category of Behavior; Degrees of Sensation and Thought; Drives and the Obscurity of Human Action; Metaphysical Claims about Human and Animal Essence; Traditional Views of the Human Essence; Drive as Our Essence; Drives and Ethics; Conclusion; Chapter Ten. Governing Darwin's World; The Continuity Argument; Natural History and Morality; Darwin and Peaceable Kingdom Thinking |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 06, 2018) |
| Subject |
Animals (Philosophy)
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SCIENCE -- Cosmology.
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Animals (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Adamson, Peter, 1972- editor
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Edwards, G. Fay, editor
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| LC no. |
2018004743 |
| ISBN |
9780199375981 |
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0199375984 |
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9780199375998 |
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0199375992 |
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