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The Ethics of Diet

Howard Williams

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Plato, Seneca, and Plutarch all argued against flesh-eating, and Howard Williams collected the whole lineage: an anthology of humane diet from antiquity forward, thinker by thinker. The ethics of diet gave vegetarianism its intellectual pedigree, and influenced Tolstoy and Gandhi. Twenty centuries of conscience at the table. Trace the argument to its roots.

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72 chapters

  1. 1CONTENTS.
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3I. HESIOD. EIGHTH CENTURY B.C.
  4. 4II. PYTHAGORAS. 570–470 B.C.
  5. 5III. PLATO. 428–347 B.C.
  6. 6IV. OVID. 43 B.C.–18 A.D.
  7. 7V. SENECA. DIED 65 A.D.
  8. 8VI. PLUTARCH. 40–120 A.D. (?)
  9. 9PLUTARCH—ESSAY ON FLESH-EATING.
  10. 10VII. TERTULLIAN. 160–240 (?) A.D.
  11. 11VIII. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA. DIED 220 (?) A.D.
  12. 12IX. PORPHYRY. 233–306 (?) A.D.
  13. 13X. CHRYSOSTOM. 347–407 A.D.
  14. 14XI. CORNARO. 1465–1566.
  15. 15XII. SIR THOMAS MORE. 1480–1535.
  16. 16XIII. MONTAIGNE. 1533–1592.
  17. 17XIV. GASSENDI. 1592–1655.
  18. 18XV. RAY. 1627–1705.

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