01486nam a2200325 a 4500 EDZ0000075123 StDuBDS 20150804193932.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 091203s2007 enk fo 001 0 eng d 9780191712944 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS HV4708 179.3 22 Osborne, Catherine. Dumb beasts and dead philosophers [electronic resource] : humanity and the humane in ancient philosophy and literature / Catherine Osborne. Oxford : Clarendon, 2007. 1 online resource (xi, 262 p.) 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 of the ancient philosophers and poets, we can see when and how we lost touch with the natural intelligence of dumb animals. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index. Animal welfare Philosophy History. Philosophy, Ancient. Animals in literature. Literature, Ancient History and criticism. Animals and civilization. Print version 9780199282067 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199282067.001.0001 37411 37411