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11. Did the Greeks have the idea of human or animal rights?
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction 1
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Part I. Mind
- 1. The crisis: the denial of reason to animals 7
- 2. Perceptual content expanded 17
- 3. Concepts and perceptual appearance without reason or belief 30
- 4. Memory, preparation and emotion without rational belief 50
- 5. Forms, universals and abstraction in animals 62
- 6. The shifting concept of reason 65
- 7. Speech, skills, inference and other proofs of reason 78
- 8. Plants and animals 97
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Part II: Morals
- 9. Responsibility, justice and reason 107
- 10. Oikeiôsis and bonding between rational beings 122
- 11. Did the Greeks have the idea of human or animal rights? 134
- 12. Anarchy and contracts between rational beings 158
- 13. Religious sacrifice and meat-eating 170
- 14. Augustine on irrational animals and the Christian tradition 195
- 15. The one-dimensionality of ethical theories 208
- Principal Protagonists 220
- Select Bibliography 221
- General Index 233
- Index Locorum 256
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. Mind
- 1. The crisis: the denial of reason to animals 7
- 2. Perceptual content expanded 17
- 3. Concepts and perceptual appearance without reason or belief 30
- 4. Memory, preparation and emotion without rational belief 50
- 5. Forms, universals and abstraction in animals 62
- 6. The shifting concept of reason 65
- 7. Speech, skills, inference and other proofs of reason 78
- 8. Plants and animals 97
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Part II: Morals
- 9. Responsibility, justice and reason 107
- 10. Oikeiôsis and bonding between rational beings 122
- 11. Did the Greeks have the idea of human or animal rights? 134
- 12. Anarchy and contracts between rational beings 158
- 13. Religious sacrifice and meat-eating 170
- 14. Augustine on irrational animals and the Christian tradition 195
- 15. The one-dimensionality of ethical theories 208
- Principal Protagonists 220
- Select Bibliography 221
- General Index 233
- Index Locorum 256