Reading Daniel Dombrowski's book _The Philosophy of Vegetarianism_, 1984. A detailed and extensive account of the ancient philosophers' reckoning on the vegetarian issue---and it was an issue from the beginning.
Why does rejecting meat and animal foodstuffs *require* a philosophy? It would seem that it has been so since the very beginnings of recorded human thought.
The ancients connected vegetarian eating with a golden (I wrote godlen) era of human being---a time when humans had a peace and connection with other beings in the world unmatched in historical time.
Is idealism a necessary condition of vegetarian diet? Are vegetarians *marked* by an idealism?
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
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