Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers
Osborne, Catherine
Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers Humanity and the Humane in Ancient Philosophy and Literature - Oxford Oxford University Press 2009 - 262p
includes index and biblioraphy
Constructing Divisions i Introduction: On William Blake, Nature, and Mortality 3 On Nature and Providence: Readings in Herodotus, Protagoras, and Democritus 24 Perceiving Continuities 41 On the Transmigration of Souls: Reincarnation into Animal Bodies in Pythagoras, Empedocles, and Plato 43 On Language, Concepts, and Automata: Rational and Irrational Animals in Aristotle and Descartes 63 On the Disadvantages of Being a Complex Organism: Aristotle and the scala naturae 98 Being Realistic 133 On the Vice of Sentimentality: Androcles and the Lion and Some Extraordinary Adventures in the Desert Fathers 135 On the Notion of Natural Rights: Defending the Voiceless and Oppressed in the Tragedies of Sophocles 162 On Self-Defence and Utilitarian Calculations: Democritus of Abdera and Hermarchus of Mytilene 197 On Eating Animals: Porphyry`s Dietary Rules for Philosophers 224
9780199568277 2426
N56.1 / OS150
Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers Humanity and the Humane in Ancient Philosophy and Literature - Oxford Oxford University Press 2009 - 262p
includes index and biblioraphy
Constructing Divisions i Introduction: On William Blake, Nature, and Mortality 3 On Nature and Providence: Readings in Herodotus, Protagoras, and Democritus 24 Perceiving Continuities 41 On the Transmigration of Souls: Reincarnation into Animal Bodies in Pythagoras, Empedocles, and Plato 43 On Language, Concepts, and Automata: Rational and Irrational Animals in Aristotle and Descartes 63 On the Disadvantages of Being a Complex Organism: Aristotle and the scala naturae 98 Being Realistic 133 On the Vice of Sentimentality: Androcles and the Lion and Some Extraordinary Adventures in the Desert Fathers 135 On the Notion of Natural Rights: Defending the Voiceless and Oppressed in the Tragedies of Sophocles 162 On Self-Defence and Utilitarian Calculations: Democritus of Abdera and Hermarchus of Mytilene 197 On Eating Animals: Porphyry`s Dietary Rules for Philosophers 224
9780199568277 2426
N56.1 / OS150