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" Animals, rights, and reason in Plutarch and modern ethics / "
Stephen T. Newmyer
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BL
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628007
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Newmyer, Stephen Thomas
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Animals, rights, and reason in Plutarch and modern ethics /\ Stephen T. Newmyer
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New York :: Routledge,, 2006
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ix, 139 p. ;; 25 cm
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0415240468 (hardback : alk. paper)
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: 0415240476 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-134) and indexes
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Introduction: The ancients and the moderns -- The nature of the beast : the search for animal rationality -- Just beasts : animal morality and human justice -- Feeling beastly : pain, pleasure, and the animal estate -- Beauty in the beast : cooperation, altruism, and philanthropy among animals -- Animal appetites : vegetarianism and human morality -- Conclusion
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"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.
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Plutarch
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Animal rights-- Moral and ethical aspects
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Animals (Philosophy)
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Cognition in animals
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Ethics
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179/.3
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HV4708.N496 2006
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