Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers Humanity and the Humane in Ancient Philosophy and Literature
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 2009Description: 262pISBN:- 9780199568277
- N56.1 OS150
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N56.1 G313 Greek Poetry and Philosophy | N56.1 L621 Tragic Pleasure from Homer to Plato | N56.1 M821 A Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato | N56.1 OS150 Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers | N56.1 R720 Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth | N56.1 W722 History of Ancient Philosophy | N56.19 P613 Euripides |
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
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