"No one tradition alone offers a sufficient respect for other species. Taken together, they may offer a prospect for saner human-animal relations." -- From the book Western conceptions of objectivity and individuality have resulted in a readier appreciation of the worth of the animals and nature than has been recognized. This provocative book takes issue with the popular view that the Western cultural tradition, in contrast to Eastern and Aboriginal traditions, has encouraged attitudes of domination and exploitation towards nature, particularly animals. Preece argues that the Western tradition has much to commend it, and that descriptions of Aboriginal and Oriental orientations have often been misleadingly rosy, simplified and codified according to current fashionable concepts. Animals and Nature is the result of six years` intensive study into comparative religion, literature, philosophy, anthropology, mythology and animal welfare science.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [284]-294) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 179/.3
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0774807245 9780774852203
- LCCN
- RD581
- LCCN Item number
- P74 1999eb
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xxvii, 305 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)jme00326740 (OCoLC)180704198 (CaOOCEL)404032
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Preface 10
- Acknowledgments 15
- Introduction: The Denigration of the West 17
- 1 Advocacy Scholarship 32
- 2 Beastliness and Brutality 56
- 3 Animals All? 78
- 4 Rationalism 102
- 5 Alienation from Nature 122
- 6 From the Great Chain of Being to the Theory of Evolution 148
- 7 Aboriginal and Oriental Harmony with Nature 190
- 8 Gaea and the Universal Spirit 250
- Notes 298
- Select Bibliography 313
- Index 324
- A 324
- B 324
- C 325
- D 326
- E 327
- F 327
- G 327
- H 328
- I 328
- J 328
- K 328
- L 329
- M 329
- N 330
- O 330
- P 331
- Q 331
- R 331
- S 332
- T 333
- U 333
- V 333
- W 334
- X 334
- Y 334
- Z 334
