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Animals, rights, and reason in Plutarch and modern ethics
- Title
- Animals, rights, and reason in Plutarch and modern ethics / Stephen T. Newmyer.
- Author
- Newmyer, Stephen T. (Stephen Thomas)
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2006.
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- Description
- ix, 139 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Plutarch is virtually unique in surviving classical authors in arguing that animals are rational and sentient and in concluding that human beings must take notice of their interests. Stephen Newmyer explores Plutarch's three animal-related treatises, as well as passages from his other ethical treatises, that argue that non-human animals are rational and therefore deserve to fall within the sphere of human moral concern."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-134) and indexes.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction : the ancients and the moderns -- 2. The nature of the beast : the search for animal rationality -- 3. Just beasts : animal morality and human justice -- 4. Feeling beastly : pain, pleasure and the animal estate -- 5. Beauty in the beast : cooperation, altruism and philanthropy among animals -- 6. Animal appetites : vegetarianism and human morality -- 7. Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0415240468 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0415240476 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005014235
- OCLC
- ocm60515134
- SCSB-5224231
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries