Principal Protagonists

Chapters in this book

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