Animals : a history

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Philosophical controversy over non-human animals extends further back than many realize - before Utilitarianism and Darwinism to the very genesis of philosophy. This volume examines the richness and complexity of that long history. Twelve essays trace the significance of animals from Greek and Indian antiquity through the Islamic and Latin medieval traditions, to Renaissance and early modern thought, ending with contemporary notions about animals. Two main questions emerge throughout the volume: what capacities can be ascribed to animals, and how should we treat them? Notoriously ungenerous attitudes towards animals' mental lives and ethics status, found for instance in Aristotle and Descartes, are shown to have been more nuanced than often supposed, while remarkable defenses of benevolence towards animals are unearthed in late antiquity, India, the Islamic world, and Kant. Other chapters examine cannibalism and vegetarianism in Renaissance thought, and the scientific testing of animals. A series of interdisciplinary reflections sheds further light on human attitudes towards animals, looking at their depiction in visual artworks from China, Africa, and Europe, as well as the rich tradition of animal fables beginning with Aesop.--Nakladatelská anotace … celý popis

Podrobná bibliografie

Další autoři:

Peter Adamson, 1972-
G. Fay Edwards

Typ dokumentu:

Knihy

Rozsah:

xiv, 454 stran, 4 nečíslované strany obrazových příloh :

Vydáno:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Edice:

Oxford philosophical concepts

Témata:

zvířata > filozofické aspekty

filozofie přírodních věd

filozofické myšlení

dějiny přírodních věd

kolektivní monografie

Popis jednotky:

Obsahuje poznámkový aparát na stranách 345-403
Seznam autorů na stranách xi-xiv, informace o editorech na 4. straně obálky
Údaj o místě vydání převzat z rubu titulní strany

Fyzický popis:

xiv, 454 stran, 4 nečíslované strany obrazových příloh : ilustrace (barevné) ; 21 cm

Bibliografie:

Obsahuje bibliografii, bibliografické odkazy a rejstříky

ISBN:

978-0-19-937597-4
978-0-19-937596-7

Obsah:

Introduction / Peter Adamson -- Aristotle on animals / Devin Henry -- Reincarnation, rationality, and temperance : Platonists on not eating animals / G. Fay Edwards -- Listening to Aesop's animals / Jeremy B. Lefkowitz -- Illuminating thought : animals in classical Indian thought / Amber D. Carpenter -- The joy of fish and Chinese animal painting / Hou-Mei Sung -- Human and animal nature in the philosophy of the Islamic world / Peter Adamson -- Of rainbow snakes and baffling buffalo : on a Central African mask / Allen F. Roberts -- Marking the boundaries : animals in Medieval Latin philosophy / Juhana Toivanen -- Animal intelligence : examples of the human-animal border in Medieval literature / Sabine Obermaier -- Subversive laughter in Reynard the Fox / James Simpson -- Animals in the Renaissance : you eat what you are / Cecilia Muratori -- Animal souls and beast machines : Descartes's mechanical biology / Deborah J. Brown -- Kant on animals / Patrick Kain -- The gaze of the ape : Gabriel von Max's Affenmalerei and the "question of all questions" / Cecilia Muratori -- The emergence of the drive-concept and the collapse of the animal/human divide / Paul Katsafanas -- Governing Darwin's world / Philip Kitcher -- Morgan's canon : animal psychology in the twentieth century and beyond / Helen Steward -- The contemporary debate in animal ethics / Robert Garner