Animal Minds and Human Morals The Origins of the Western Debate

Name: Animal Minds and Human Morals The Origins of the Western Debate
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ISBN: 9780801482984

ISBN-10: 0801482984

ISBN-13: 9780801482984

Edition: 1995

Authors: Richard Sorabji

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Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 12/7/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Richard Sorabjiis honorary fellow of Wolfson College at Oxford University and fellow and emeritus professor at King's College London. He is the editor of over one hundred books and author of fifteen books.



Introduction



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



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



The one-dimensionality of ethical theories


Principal protagonists


Bibliography


General index


Index locorum