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This chapter presents a discussion of the rich tradition of reflection on animals in ancient Indian philosophy, which deals with but is not restricted to the topic of reincarnation. At the center of the piece is the continuity that Indians saw between human and nonhuman animals and the consequences of this outlook for the widespread idea of nonviolence. Consideration is also given to the philosophical interest of fables centrally featuring animals, for example the Pañcatantra. In general it is suggested that ancient Indian authors did not, unlike European counterparts, focus on the question of what makes humans unique in contrast to all other animals, but rather on the ethical and metaphysical interconnections between humans and various kinds of animals.
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“How large our community is, and where we are to draw the line between those sufficiently like us to merit our attention and those who do not, is always up for imaginative reappraisal (Sawhney 2009, p. 187; Carpenter 2018; Doniger 2006; cf. also Payne 2010, pp. 83-109)”
From After the Unsilence of the Birds: Remembering Aśvaghoṣa’s Sundarī (2019) · cites this paper as Carpenter 2018
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After the Unsilence of the Birds: Remembering Aśvaghoṣa’s Sundarī
Kachru, S. (2019) · Journal of Indian Philosophy · doi:10.1007/s10781-019-09392-3 · Cited by 2
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- Authors
- Carpenter, A. D.
- Corresponding author
- Carpenter, Amber D.
- ORCID
- Carpenter, Amber D.
- Venue
- Oxford Scholarship Online
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2018-06-21
- OpenAlex
- W4241037057
- Cited by
- 3
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2022: 2 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 0.81
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
- Social Sciences › Law › Animal Law and Welfare
- Keywords
- ancient Indian philosophy, animal ethics, human-animal relations, nonviolence, reincarnation, animal fables, Pañcatantra, human uniqueness, comparative philosophy
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