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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0715627287
ISBN-13
9780715627280
Edition
New
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
Bristol Classical Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 31st, 1996
Print length
276 Pages
Weight
428 grams
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23.40 x 15.70 x 1.70 cms
Ksh 6,800.00
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A look at the history of ideas about ethical treatment of animals. The Stoics denied animals reason and belief, but this would mean that perception, emotion, intention, moral responsibility, memory, and speech would need to be redefined. Sorabji argues that a broader view of ethics is required.
"Animals can't construct sentences. Therefore we can eat them." That was the view the Stoics eventually settled for, though they began with Aristotle's much broader claim that animals lack reason. In this book, the author argues that the Western tradition has been rather complacent. St Augustine incorporated the Stoic view into Christianity, but in doing so he took up only half the ancient debate, for there were many philosophers who defended animals. The controversy affected the whole of the philosophy of mind, because if animals are denied reason and belief, we have to redefine not only reason and belief, but perception, emotion, intention, moral responsibility, memory, speech and the power to conceptualize. Sorabji argues that a broader view of ethics is needed than is found either in the ancient opponents of animals, or in their modern defenders.
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