Anthropocentrism and its discontents the moral status animals in the history of Western philosophy
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press
c2005
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b1811247x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contemporary debates on the status of animals
- Epic and pre-Socratic thought
- Aristotle and the Stoics : the evolution of a cosmic principle
- Classical defenses of animals : Plutarch and Porphyry
- The status of animals in medieval Christianity
- Descartes on the moral status of animals
- The empiricists, the utilitarians, and Kant
- Conceptions of continuity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries : Schopenhauer, Darwin, and Schweitzer
- Postmodern conceptions of the human-animal boundary
- Rethinking the moral status of animals.
