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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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