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  title info:
    title: Brute souls, happy beasts, and evolution
    sub title: the historical status of animals
  name:
    name part: Preece, Rod
    name part: 1939-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: bcc
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 480 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "In this inquiry into the status of animals in human society from the fifth century BC to the present, Rod Preece provides a wholly new perspective on the human-animal relationship. He skillfully demonstrates that, counter to prevailing intellectual opinion, ethical attitudes toward animals are neither restricted to the twentieth century nor the result of Darwin's theory of evolution. They have been part of Western thought and culture for centuries." "Preece builds a cogent and persuasive argument, challenging current assumptions about the historical status of animals in Western civilization. He dispels the notion that animals were denied ethical consideration by Christian doctrine, refutes the claim that the Cartesian conception of animals as automata was widely embraced, and proves that "theriophily"--The notion of animal superiority over humans - was given greater credence than is commonly recognized. The exhaustive research and breadth of knowledge that Preece reveals in this book are matched by his belief in our ethical responsibilities to animals."--Jacket.
  table of contents: In quest of the soul -- Peripatetic souls -- A natural history of animal souls -- Return to nature : the golden age and the happy beast -- Theriophily redivivus -- Symbiosis : animals as means and as ends -- Evolution, chain, and categorical imperative -- Kinship and evolution : the Darwinian myth -- The moral status of animals : practical judgment, reasonable partiality, and species needs.
  note: Rod Preece.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-469) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Animal welfare
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Animal welfare
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Animal welfare
    topic: Philosophy
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Animals and civilization
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Human-animal relationships
  subject:
    topic: Animal Rights
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Animals
  subject:
    topic: Western World
    topic: history
  classification: QL85 .P74 2005
  classification: QL 85 P923b 2005
  identifier: 9780774811569
  identifier: 0774811560
  identifier: 0774811579
  identifier: 9780774811576
  identifier: 2006530197
  record info:
    record content source: NLM
    record creation date: 050518
    record change date: 20191008081545.0
    record identifier: in00004521066
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng