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• Title:
  Rozumne zachowania zwierząt w relacji Marka Tulliusza Cycerona
• Creator:
  Danek, Zbigniew
• Contributor:
  Uniwersytet Łódzki, Katedra Filologii Klasycznej, Zakład Latynistyki i Językoznawstwa, ul. Pomorska 171/173, 90–236 Łódź;
  zbigdan@uni.lodz.pl
• Description:
  Having analysed Cicero’s opinions about wild animals demonstrated in some of his works (De finibus bonorum et malorum; De natura deorum; Tusculanae disputationes), we may conclude that on the one hand a human as a rational being is definitely opposed to other living creatures that just follow their carnal instincts, on the other hand even among representatives of various species of animals one can observe behaviour to some extent rational, or even “ethical”, that make them similar to human beings. We may explain this phenomenon with the concept based on the Stoic doctrine of rational or even somehow divine character of nature that contains in itself elements of gradation, and allows the presence of divine ratio in particular beings to differ in intensity, what locates animals in the hierarchy of beings slightly lower than the humans.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  © Copyright by Authors, Łódź 2017; © Copyright for this edition by Uniwersytet Łódzki, Łódź 2017
• Date:
  2018.04.03;
  2017
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  Polish
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Collectanea Philologica; 20
• Subject:
  Cicero;
  rationality;
  Stoics;
  animals;
  reasonableness
• Identifier:
  1733-0319;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/24419 ;
  2353-0901;
  10.18778/1733-0319.20.04
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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  seek permission
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  image