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• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 25 January 2007

Animal rights are, one might think, a fairly modern concept. This study shows that this is emphatically not the case and reveals a rich vein of Classical thought on the

• Publisher : Clarendon Press
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• Release Date : 25 January 2007

This unusual philosophy book asks the reader to reconsider the received view that animal rights have no place in ancient thought. Catherine Osborne argues that by reflecting on the work

• Publisher : Clarendon Press
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• Release Date : 25 January 2007

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

• Publisher : Granta Books
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• Release Date : 04 August 2011

Starting from the premise that philosophers' deaths have been as interesting as their lives, Simon Critchley looks at the strange circumstances in which some philosophers have died and then confronts

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 02 June 2024

"Several myths about Plato's work are decisively challenged by Catherine Rowett: the idea that Plato agreed with Socrates about the need for a definition of what we know; the idea

• Publisher : Lexington Books
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• Release Date : 09 June 2015

This book draws attention to the logical contradictions, unstable premises, and unquestioned assumptions that underlie arguments about Man’s distinction, while also demonstrating that the way we think about nonhuman

• Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
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• Release Date : 10 April 2018

Hardly a day goes by without news of the extinction or endangerment of yet another animal species, followed by urgent but largely unheeded calls for action. An eloquent denunciation of

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 20 August 2015

This valuable reference work synthesizes and elucidates traditional themes and issues in Islamic philosophy as well as prominent topics emerging from the last twenty years of scholarship. Written for a

• Publisher : Indiana University Press
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• Release Date : 01 August 2019

Too often the study of philosophical texts is carried out in ways that do not pay significant attention to how the ideas contained within them are presented, articulated, and developed.

• Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
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• Release Date : 02 June 2024

The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life is the first comprehensive guide to animals in the ancient world, encompassing all aspects of the topic by featuring authoritative