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Author Sorabji, Richard.

Title Animal minds and human morals : the origins of the Western debate / Richard Sorabji.

Publication Info. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [1995]

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 Moore Stacks  B187.M55 S67 1995    Available  ---
Description 267 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Cornell studies in classical philology ; v. 54. The Townsend lectures
Cornell paperbacks
Cornell studies in classical philology ; v. 54.
Cornell studies in classical philology. Townsend lectures.
Cornell paperbacks.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and indexes.
Contents Mind -- The 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 -- The shifting concept of reason -- Speech, skills, inference and other proofs of reason -- Plants and animals -- Responsibility, justice and reason -- OikeiƓsis 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.
Subject Philosophy of mind -- History.
Philosophy of mind.
History.
Animal intelligence -- Philosophy -- History.
Animal intelligence.
Philosophy.
Animal welfare -- Philosophy -- History.
Animal welfare -- Philosophy.
Animal welfare.
Animal rights -- History.
Animal rights.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophy, Medieval.
Philosophy, Medieval.
ISBN 0801482984