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On Abstinence from Killing Animals (Hardcover)
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On Abstinence from Killing Animals (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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Porphyry's On Abstinence from Killing Animals is one of the most
interesting books from Greek antiquity for both philosophers and
historians. In it, Porphyry relates the arguments for eating or
sacrificing animals and then goes on to argue that an understanding
of humans and gods shows such sacrifice to be inappropriate, that
an understanding of animals shows it to be unjust, and that a
knowledge of non-Greeks shows it to be unnecessary. There are no
Neoplatonist commentaries on Aristotle's Ethics from the period AD
250-600. Thus, although this work is not a commentary on Aristotle,
it fills a gap in this series by going to the heart of ethical
debates among Neoplatonists around AD 300, and revealing one
ascetic Neoplatonist's view of the ideal way of life. It also
records rival positions taken on the treatment of animals by Greek
philosophers over the previous six hundred years.
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