TY  - BOOK
AU  - Osborne,Catherine
TI  - Dumb beasts and dead philosophers: humanity and the humane in ancient philosophy and literature 
SN  - 9780191712944 (ebook) :
AV  - HV4708 
U1  - 179.3 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Clarendon
KW  - Animal welfare
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy, Ancient
KW  - Animals in literature
KW  - Literature, Ancient
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Animals and civilization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199282067.001.0001
ER  -