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The Animal and the Human in Ancient and Modern Thought - The 'Man Alone of Animals' Concept (Paperback)
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The Animal and the Human in Ancient and Modern Thought - The 'Man Alone of Animals' Concept (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
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Ancient Greeks endeavored to define the human being vis-a-vis other
animal species by isolating capacities and endowments which they
considered to be unique to humans. This approach toward defining
the human being still appears with surprising frequency, in modern
philosophical treatises, in modern animal behavioral studies, and
in animal rights literature, to argue both for and against the
position that human beings are special and unique because of one or
another attribute or skill that they are believed to possess. Some
of the claims of man's unique endowments have in recent years
become the subject of intensive investigation by cognitive
ethologists carried out in non-laboratory contexts. The debate is
as lively now as in classical times, and, what is of particular
note, the examples and methods of argumentation used to prove one
or another position on any issue relating to the unique status of
human beings that one encounters in contemporary philosophical or
ethological literature frequently recall ancient precedents. 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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