Animal and the Human in Ancient Thought
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Word Count
42,000 words, Guess
Page Count
168 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28773070M
- ISBN-139780415837347
- OCLC Control Number1004256438
- Library of Congress Control Number2016025049
Classifications
- LCCBD450
Description
"This is the first book-length study of the "man alone of animals" topos in classical literature, not restricting its analysis to Greco-Roman claims of man's intellectual uniqueness, but including classical assertions of man's physiological and emotional uniqueness. It supplements this analysis of ancient manifestations with an examination of how the commonplace survives and has been restated, transformed, and extended in contemporary ethological literature and in the literature of the animal rights and animal welfare movements. Author Stephen T. Newmyer demonstrates that the anthropocentrism detected in Greek applications of the "man alone of animals" topos is not only alive and well in many facets of the current debate on human-animal relations, but that combating its negative effects is a stated aim of some modern philosophers and activists." --
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