TY  - BOOK
AU  - Osborne, Catherine
AU  - Osborne,Catherine
TI  - Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers:  Humanity and the Humane in Ancient Philosophy and Literature
SN  - 9780199568277
U1  - N56.1 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
N1  - 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
ER  -