Anthropocentrism and its discontents : the moral status of animals in the history of Western philosophy /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Steiner, Gary, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, Ã2005.
Temas:
Animal welfare > Moral and ethical aspects.
Animal welfare > Religious aspects.
Animaux > Protection > Aspect moral.
Animaux > Protection > Aspect religieux.
Animal welfare > Moral and ethical aspects
Animal welfare > Religious aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contemporary debates on the status of animals
  • Epic and pre-Socratic thought
  • Aristotle and the Stoics : the evolution of a cosmic principle
  • Classical defenses of animals : Plutarch and Porphyry
  • The status of animals in medieval Christianity
  • Descartes on the moral status of animals
  • The empiricists, the utilitarians, and Kant
  • Conceptions of continuity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries : Schopenhauer, Darwin, and Schweitzer
  • Postmodern conceptions of the human-animal boundary
  • Rethinking the moral status of animals.

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