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Porphyry: On Abstinence from Killing Animals (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) by Aristotle, 384-322 B.C.; Clark, Gillian; Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305 is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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Porphyry's <i>On Abstinence from Killing Animals </i>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. <br><br>There are no Neoplatonist commentaries on A
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- Author
- Aristotle, 384-322 B.C.; Clark, Gillian; Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic; Bristol Classical Press;Duckworth ; Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801436925
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Philosophy, Medical
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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