‘The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?J1: The Ethics of Vegetarianism in the Writings of Plutarch

Eating and Believing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vegetarianism and Theology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 96-109

  Beer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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6. Donald G. Kyle, Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome (London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 9
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8. Richard Sorabji, Animal Minds and Human Morals: The Origins of the Western Debate (London: Duckworth, 1993), p. 172.
9. Stephen T. Newmyer, Animals, Rights and Reason in Plutarch and Modern Ethics (London: Routledge, 2006), p. 30
10. Daniel A. Dombrowski, ‘Vegetarianism and the Argument from Marginal Cases in Porphyry’, Journal of the History of Ideas 45, 1 (1984), pp. 141-43
11. Peter Singer, Animal Liberation (London: Random House, 2nd edn, 1990), p. 265.