Animals, rights, and reason in Plutarch and modern ethics
By: Stephen T. Newmyer.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
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: title: Introduction: The ancients and the moderns; title: The nature of the beast : the search for animal rationality; title: Just beasts : animal morality and human justice; title: Feeling beastly : pain, pleasure, and the animal estate; title: Beauty in the beast : cooperation, altruism, and philanthropy among animals; title: Animal appetites : vegetarianism and human morality; title: Conclusion.