Porphyry On Abstinence From Killing Animals
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Porphyry On Abstinence From Killing Animals
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language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-04-10
Porphyry On Abstinence From Killing Animals written by and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-10 with Philosophy categories.
Porphyry's On Abstinence from Killing Animals is one of the most interesting books from Greek antiquity for both philosophers and historians. In it, Porphyry relates the arguments for eating or sacrificing animals and then goes on to argue that an understanding of humans and gods shows such sacrifice to be inappropriate, that an understanding of animals shows it to be unjust, and that a knowledge of non-Greeks shows it to be unnecessary. There are no Neoplatonist commentaries on Aristotle's Ethics from the period AD 250-600. Thus, although this work is not a commentary on Aristotle, it fills a gap in this series by going to the heart of ethical debates among Neoplatonists around AD 300, and revealing one ascetic Neoplatonist's view of the ideal way of life. It also records rival positions taken on the treatment of animals by Greek philosophers over the previous six hundred years.
On Abstinence From Killing Animals
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Author : Porphyry
language : en
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Release Date : 2000
On Abstinence From Killing Animals written by Porphyry and has been published by Bristol Classical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Collections categories.
Porphyry's "On Abstinence from Killing Animals "is one of the most interesting books from Greek antiquity for both philosophers and historians. In it, Porphyry relates the arguments for eating or sacrificing animals and then goes on to argue that an understanding of humans and gods shows such sacrifice to be inappropriate, that an understanding of animals shows it to be unjust, and that a knowledge of non-Greeks shows it to be unnecessary. There are no Neoplatonist commentaries on Aristotle's "Ethics "from the period AD 250-600. Thus, although this work is not a commentary on Aristotle, it fills a gap in this series by going to the heart of ethical debates among Neoplatonists around AD 300, and revealing one ascetic Neoplatonist's view of the ideal way of life. It also records rival positions taken on the treatment of animals by Greek philosophers over the previous six hundred years.
Porphyry On Abstinence From Animal Food
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Author : Porphyry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Porphyry On Abstinence From Animal Food written by Porphyry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Animal sacrifice categories.
Renaissance Vegetarianism
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Author : Cecilia Muratori
language : en
Publisher: Italian Perspectives
Release Date : 2023-01-09
Renaissance Vegetarianism written by Cecilia Muratori and has been published by Italian Perspectives this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-09 with categories.
Should a philosopher be vegetarian? This question had been famously answered in the affirmative in a classic work on philosophical vegetarianism: On Abstinence from Eating Animals, written by the Neoplatonist Porphyry in the third century AD. This study traces the rekindling of interest in On Abstinence in the Renaissance. It shows that long before the term 'vegetarianism' emerged, philosophers, physicians and religious figures discussed the advantages and disadvantages of choosing a meat-free diet. As On Abstinence circulated, via editions and translations, the key questions posed by Porphyry stimulated new debates: is vegetarianism compatible with religious piety? Does a vegetable diet promote or endanger health and longevity? What can be learnt from observing the diets of other, geographically distant populations, such as the vegetarian Brahmans of India, or the cannibals in America? And finally, is it ethically justifiable to eat beings to which sentience and rationality may be attributed? Cecilia Muratori is Research Fellow at the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, Queen Mary University of London, and Tutor in Philosophy at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge.
Lire Descartes Aujourd Hui
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Author : Maurice F. Wiles
language : en
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Release Date : 2001
Lire Descartes Aujourd Hui written by Maurice F. Wiles and has been published by Peeters Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Asceticism categories.
Porphyry S On The Cave Of The Nymphs In Its Intellectual Context
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Author : K. Nilüfer Akçay
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-07-01
Porphyry S On The Cave Of The Nymphs In Its Intellectual Context written by K. Nilüfer Akçay and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-01 with Philosophy categories.
This monograph, exclusively dedicated to the analysis of Porphyry’s On the Cave of Nymphs, provides his philosophical thoughts on the material world, relationship between soul and body and the salvation of the soul through the doctrines of Plato and Plotinus.
The Powers Of Aristotle S Soul
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Author : Thomas Kjeller Johansen
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2012-10-18
The Powers Of Aristotle S Soul written by Thomas Kjeller Johansen and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-18 with Philosophy categories.
Aristotle is considered by many to be the founder of 'faculty psychology'—the attempt to explain a variety of psychological phenomena by reference to a few inborn capacities. In The Powers of Aristotle's Soul, Thomas Kjeller Johansen investigates his main work on psychology, the De Anima, from this perspective. He shows how Aristotle conceives of the soul's capacities and how he uses them to account for the souls of living beings. Johansen offers an original account of how Aristotle defines the capacities in relation to their activities and proper objects, and considers the relationship of the body to the definition of the soul's capacities. Against the background of Aristotle's theory of science, Johansen argues that the capacities of the soul serve as causal principles in the explanation of the various life forms. He develops detailed readings of Aristotle's treatment of nutrition, perception, and intellect, which show the soul's various roles as formal, final and efficient causes, and argues that the so-called 'agent' intellect falls outside the scope of Aristotle's natural scientific approach to the soul. Other psychological activities, various kinds of perception (including 'perceiving that we perceive'), memory, imagination, are accounted for in their explanatory dependency on the basic capacities. The ability to move spatially is similarly explained as derivative from the perceptual or intellectual capacities. Johansen claims that these capacities together with the nutritive may be understood as 'parts' of the soul, as they are basic to the definition and explanation of the various kinds of soul. Finally, he considers how the account of the capacities in the De Anima is adopted and adapted in Aristotle's biological and minor psychological works.
Neoplatonic Demons And Angels
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Author : Luc Brisson
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-07-10
Neoplatonic Demons And Angels written by Luc Brisson and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-10 with Philosophy categories.
Neoplatonic Demons and Angels is a collection of studies which examine the place reserved for angels and demons not only by the main Neoplatonic philosophers, but also in Gnosticism, the Chaldaean Oracles and Christian Neoplatonism.
Animals
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Author : Peter Adamson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
Animals written by Peter Adamson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Philosophy categories.
This volume traces the history of animals in philosophy, from antiquity down to contemporary times. Negative attitudes towards animals, as found in Aristotle and Descartes, turn out to be more nuanced than usually supposed, while remarkable discussions of animal welfare appear in late antiquity, India, the Islamic world, and Kant.
Brill S Companion To The Reception Of Plutarch
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-10-07
Brill S Companion To The Reception Of Plutarch written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plutarch offers the first comprehensive analysis of Plutarch’s rich reception history from the high Roman Empire, Late Antiquity and Byzantium to the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and the modern era, across various cultures in Europe, America, North Africa, and the Middle East.