Animals, rights, and reason in Plutarch and modern ethics
By: Stephen T. Newmyer.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York; Abingdon, Oxon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Plutarch.; Animal rights -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Animals (Philosophy); Cognition in animals.; Ethics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: The ancients and the moderns; value: The nature of the beast : the search for animal rationality; value: Just beasts : animal morality and human justice; value: Feeling beastly : pain, pleasure and the animal estate; value: Beauty in the beast : cooperation, altruism and philanthropy among animals; value: Animal appetites : vegetarianism and human morality; value: Conclusion.