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100 _aOsborne, Catherine
245 _aDumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers
_b Humanity and the Humane in Ancient Philosophy and Literature
260 _aOxford
_bOxford University Press
_c2009
300 _a262p
500 _aincludes index and biblioraphy
505 2 _aConstructing 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
700 1 _aOsborne, Catherine
902 _bSFS
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