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Contents Part I. Constructing Divisions 1 1. Introduction: On William Blake, Nature, and Mortality 3 2. On Nature and Providence: Readings in Herodotus, Protagoras, and Democritus 25 Part II. Perceiving Continuities 43 3. On the Transmigration of Souls: Reincarnation into Animal Bodies in Pythagoras, Empedocles, and Plato 45 4. On Language, Concepts, and Automata: Rational and Irrational Animals in Aristotle and Descartes 65 5. On the Disadvantages of Being a Complex Organism: Aristotle and the scala naturae 100 Part III. Being Realistic 135 6. On the Vice of Sentimentality: Androcles and the Lion and Some Extraordinary Adventures in the Desert Fathers 137 7. On the Notion of Natural Rights: Defending the Voiceless and Oppressed in the Tragedies of Sophocles 164 8. On Self-defence and Utilitarian Calculations: Democritus of Abdera and Hermarchus of Mytilene 199 9. On Eating Animals: Porphyry's Dietary Rules for Philosophers 226 Conclusion 241 Bibliography 245 Index 251
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Animal welfare -- Philosophy -- History.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Animals in literature.
Literature, Ancient -- History and criticism.
Animals and civilization.