ANIMALS OPC C

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-937596-7
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 472 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 720 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adamson

Adamson, Peter

Edwards, G. Fay

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Contributors

- Introduction, Peter Adamson

- Chapter 1. Aristotle on Animals Devin Henry

- Chapter 2. Reincarnation, Rationality, and Temperance: Platonists on Not Eating Animals G. Fay Edwards

- Reflection: Listening to Aesop's Animals Jeremy B. Lefkowitz

- Chapter 3. Illuminating Thought: Animals in Classical Indian Thought Amber D. Carpenter

- Reflection: The Joy of Fish and Chinese Animal Painting Hou-mei Sung

- Chapter 4. Human and Animal Nature in the Philosophy of the Islamic World Peter Adamson

- Reflection: Of Rainbow Snakes and Baffling Buffalos: Reflections on a Central African Mask Allen F. Roberts

- Chapter 5.Marking the Boundaries: Animals in Medieval Latin Philosophy Juhana Toivanen

- Reflection: Animal Intelligence: Examples of the Human-Animal Border in Medieval Literature Sabine Obermaier

- Reflection: Subversive Laughter in Reynard the Fox James Simpson

- Chapter 6. Animals in the Renaissance: You Eat What you Are Cecilia Muratori

- Chapter 7. Animal Souls and Beast Machines: Descartes' Mechanical Biology Deborah J. Brown

- Chapter 8. Kant on Animals Patrick Kain

- Reflection: The Gaze of the Ape: Gabriel von Max's Affenmalerei and the "Question of All Questions" Cecilia Muratori

- Chapter 9. The Emergence of the Drive Concept and the Collapse of the Animal/Human Divide Paul Katsafanas

- Chapter 10. Governing Darwin's World Philip Kitcher

- Chapter 11. Morgan's Canon: Animal Psychology in the Twentieth Century and Beyond Helen Steward

- Chapter 12.The Contemporary Debate in Animal Ethics Robert Garner

- Primary Literature

- Secondary Literature

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich. He is the editor of another forthcoming volume in the Oxford Philosophical Concepts series, Health: the History of a Concept, and the author of the book series A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, published by Oxford University Press.

G. Fay Edwards completed her doctorate in Ancient Philosophy at King's College London in 2013, and took up a position as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis until late 2015. She has published papers on Plato, Porphyry and the Stoics, and is the author of 'How to Escape Indictment for Impiety: Teaching as Punishment in the Euthyphro,' which was published in the Journal of the History of Philosophy.