Plutarch, De esu carnium II, ed. William W. Goodwin, 7

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[7] Let us therefore in the next place consider, whether we owe any justice to the brute beasts. Neither shall we handle this point artificially, or like subtle sophisters, but by casting our eye into our own breasts, and conversing with ourselves as men, we will weigh and examine the whole matter

De esu carnium II. Plutarch. ed. William W. Goodwin. Boston. 1874.

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Of eating of flesh: Tract II. (English) (Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals, Vol. V. Goodwin, William W., editor; Baxter, William, translator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company; Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874.)

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Περὶ σαρκοφαγίας λόγος β′ Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol. VI. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1895.) — 7 focus

[7] οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦτʼ ἤδη σκεψώμεθα, τὸ 20 μηδὲν εἶναι πρὸς τὰ ζῷα δίκαιον ἡμῖν, μηδὲ τεχνικῶς μηδὲ σοφιστικῶς, ἀλλὰ τοῖς πάθεσιν ἐμβλέψαντες τοῖς ἑαυτῶν καὶ πρὸς ἑαυτοὺς ἀνθρωπικῶς λαλήσαντες καὶ ἀνακρίναντες.

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On the eating of flesh II Perseus (Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. XII. Cherniss, Harold, and Helmbold, William C., translators. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1957 (printing).) — 7 focus

[7] Let us, however, now examine the point whether we really have no compact of justice with animals; and let us do so in no artificial or sophistical manner, but fixing our attention on our own emotions and conversing like human beings with ourselves and weighing ¹

Plutarch De esu carnium II 7

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