Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers: Humanity and the Humane in Ancient Philosophy and Literature by Catherine Osborne

Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers: Humanity and the Humane in Ancient Philosophy and Literature

Catherine Osborne

262 pages • 2007

3 editions

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Animal rights do not feature explicitly in ancient thought. Indeed the notion of natural rights in general is not obviously present in the classical world. Plato and Aristotle are typically read as racist and elitist thinkers who barely recognise ...

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