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  • PLUTARCH’S THREE TREATISES ON ANIMALS
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    PLUTARCH’S THREE TREATISES ON ANIMALS
    STEPHEN T. NEWMYER
    This volume offers a new translation of Plutarch’s three treatises on animals—On the Cleverness of Animals, Whether Beasts Are Rational, and On Eating Meat—accompanied by introductions and explanatory commentaries. The accompanying commentaries are designed not only to elucidate the meaning of the Greek text, but to call attention to Plutarch’s striking anticipations of argumen...

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  • THE ANIMAL AND THE HUMAN IN ANCIENT AND MODERN THOUGHT
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    THE ANIMAL AND THE HUMAN IN ANCIENT AND MODERN THOUGHT
    STEPHEN NEWMYER
    Ancient Greeks endeavored to define the human being vis-à-vis other animal species by isolating capacities and endowments which they considered to be unique to humans. This approach toward defining the human being still appears with surprising frequency, in modern philosophical treatises, in modern animal behavioral studies, and in animal rights literature, to argue both for an...

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  • ANIMALS, RIGHTS AND REASON IN PLUTARCH AND MODERN ETHICS
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    ANIMALS, RIGHTS AND REASON IN PLUTARCH AND MODERN ETHICS
    STEPHEN T. NEWMYER
    This groundbreaking volume explores Plutarch's unique survival in the argument that animals are rational and sentient, and that we, as humans, must take notice of their interests. Exploring Plutarch's three animal-related treatises, as well as passages from his ethical treatises, Stephen Newmyer examines arguments that, strikingly, foreshadow those found in the works of such pr...

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  • ANIMALS IN GREEK AND ROMAN THOUGHT
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    ANIMALS IN GREEK AND ROMAN THOUGHT
    STEPHEN T. NEWMYER
    Although reasoned discourse on human-animal relations is often considered a late twentieth-century phenomenon, ethical debate over animals and how humans should treat them can be traced back to the philosophers and literati of the classical world. From Stoic assertions that humans owe nothing to animals that are intellectually foreign to them, to Plutarch's impassioned argument...

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  • ANIMALS IN GREEK AND ROMAN THOUGHT
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    ANIMALS IN GREEK AND ROMAN THOUGHT
    STEPHEN T. NEWMYER
    The second edition of Animals in Greek and Roman Thought: A Sourcebook offers a detailed introduction to Greco-Roman thought on the intellectual and emotional capacities of non-human animals and on the ethical dimensions of human-non-human animal interactions. Selections translated from Greek and Roman philosophical, natural scientific, religious, historical and poetic literatu...

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