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Animal Minds and Human Morals : The Origins of the Western Debate /
"They don't have syntax, so we can eat them." According to Richard Sorabji, this conclusion attributed to the Stoic philosophers was based on Aristotle's argument that animals lack reason. In his fascinating, deeply learned book, Sorabji traces the roots of our thinking about ani...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1993.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Mind
- Crisis: the denial of reason to animals
- Perceptual content expanded
- Concepts and perceptual appearance without reason or belief
- Memory, preparation and emotion without rational belief
- Forms, universals and abstraction in animals
- Shifting concept of reason
- Speech, skills, inference and other proofs of reason
- Plants and animals
- Morals
- Responsibility, justice and reason
- Oikeiosis and bonding between rational beings
- Did the Greeks have the idea of human or animal rights?
- Anarchy and contracts between rational beings
- Religious sacrifice and meat-eating
- Augustine on irrational animals and the Christian tradition
- One-dimensionality of ethical theories.