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Constructing Divisions | |
Introduction: on William Blake, nature and mortality | |
On nature and providence: readings in Herodotus, Protagoras and Democritus | |
Perceiving Continuities | |
On the transmigration of souls: reincarnation into animal bodies in Pythagoras, Empedocles and Plato | |
On language, concepts and automata: rational and irrational animals in Aristotle and Descartes | |
On the disadvantages of being a complex organism: Aristotle and the scala naturae | |
Being Realistic | |
On the vice of sentimentality: Androcles and the Lion and some extraordinary adventures in the Desert Fathers | |
On the notion of natural rights: defending the voiceless and oppressed in the Tragedies of Sophocles | |
On self-defence and utilitarian calculations: Democritus of Abdera and Hermarchus of Mytilene | |
On eating animals: Porphyry's dietary rules for philosophers | |
Conclusion | |
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