Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy /
Non-human animals are a topic of intense philosophical interest in the modern day. It is often supposed that this is a recent development, but in fact pre-modern philosophers were intensely interested in animals. Aristotle initiated a long-standing zoological tradition, but it was only part of the v...
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| 505 | 0 | |t Introduction -- Peter Adamson and Miira Tuominen -- 1 Animals "as if": Homeric and Oppianic Animal Similes in the Context of Philosophical Discussion on Animals -- Tua Korhonen -- 2 Aristotle on Animal Intelligence: A Difference in Degree or by Analogy? -- Miira Tuominen -- 3 Aristotle on Human Use of Non-human Animals -- Sophia M. Connell -- 4 Non-human Animals in the Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics -- Thornton Lockwood -- 5 Builders and Weavers of the Animal Kingdom: Non-human Poiêsis in Aristotle and the Ancient Commentators -- Marilù Papandreou -- 6 The Divine Enema-Inventing Egyptian Ibis -- Robert Mayhew -- 7 Galen, Priscian, and al-Fārābī on Theodicy and Venomous Animals -- Kosta Gligorijevic -- 8 Animal and Human Souls in the Overall Arrangement of the Cosmos -- The Kindī-Circle's Adaptation of Alexander of Aphrodisias' De providentia as a Case Study of the Nascent "Arabic Aristotelianism" -- Giulio Navarra -- 9 Sensing Dimly in the Light of Reason? Downgrading Animal Perception in Parts of the Arabic Aristotelian Tradition -- Rotraud Hansberger -- 10 Debating Hybridity in al-Jāḥiẓ's Book of Mules -- Michael Payne -- 11 The Problem of Animal Suffering in the Brethren of Purity and Abū Bakr al-Rāzī: The Muʿtazilite Context -- Janne Mattila -- 12 Classes of Animals in al-Fārābī's Works -- Nicolas Payen -- 13 Demarcating Animals from Plants: Abū al-Ḥassan al-'Āmirī in Dialogue with Avicenna -- Ruizhi Ma -- 14 Something in the Milk: Ibn Abī l-Ashʿath on the Content and Function of Milk for Animals and Humans -- Jens-Ole Schmitt -- 15 Deconstructing the Idea of the Human as the Noblest Animal: A Treatise by Qābūs Ibn Wushmgir -- Behnam Khodanpah -- 16 Ibn Mattawayh's (fl. Fifth/Eleventh Century) "Chapter on Life" ( al-Kalām fī l-ḥayā ) and Its Arguments from Animals -- A Preliminary Introduction -- Racha el-Omari -- 17 Dogs Fear Mud, the Wooden Stick, and Other Things: Notes on Animal Emotions in Avicenna -- Tommaso Alpina -- 18 Ibn Bājja on the Foundations of the Science of Animals -- Bahodir Musametov -- 19 "Unto Him Thou Shalt All Return": The Resurrection of Animals in Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī -- Hanif Amin Beidokhti -- 20 Political Allegories or Moral Exemplars? The Role of Animals in Petrus Alfonsi's Disciplina Clericalis and Its Medieval English Reception -- Zack Candy -- 21 Dicit Commentator quod cogitativa in nobis perfectior est quam aestimativa in brutis : How the Latin Averroes Came to Believe in Avicenna's Estimative Power -- Michele Meroni -- 22 The Irrational Language: Albert the Great on the Perception and Language of Pygmies -- Paloma Hernández-Rubio -- 23 Can Animals Count? How Might Aquinas Explain Recent Cases of Animals Cognizing Quantities or Numbers? -- John Skalko -- 24 "Loving Animals Has Never Prevented Me from Killing Them": Later Medieval Scholastics on Moral Behavior toward Non-human Animals -- Guy Guldentops -- 25 "A Dog Must Know Almost Everything": The Dog in Medieval European Philosophy and Practical Treatises -- Philip Line -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a Non-human animals are a topic of intense philosophical interest in the modern day. It is often supposed that this is a recent development, but in fact pre-modern philosophers were intensely interested in animals. Aristotle initiated a long-standing zoological tradition, but it was only part of the vast literature on animals in antiquity and the middle ages. To do it justice, this book gathers twenty-five studies of animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin philosophy. Major themes include the cognitive capacities of animals, the difference between humans and animals and the question of how humans should treat animals, as well as God's relationship towards animals, animal diet and mating, language among animals, animal suffering, animals as ethical exemplars, and reincarnation. Contributors Peter Adamson, Tommaso Alpina, Hanif Amin Beidokhti, Zack Candy, Sophia M. Connell, Racha el-Omari, Kosta Gligorijevic, Guy Guldentops, Rotraud Hansberger, Paloma Hernández-Rubio, Tua Korhonen, Behnam Khodanpah, Philip Line, Thornton Lockwood, Ruizhi Ma, Janne Mattila, Robert Mayhew, Michele Meroni, Bahodir Musametov, Giulio Navarra, Marilù Papandreou, Nicolas Payen, Michael Payne, Jens-Ole Schmitt, John Skalko, and Miira Tuominen. | ||
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