On Abstinence from Animal Food

On Abstinence from Animal Food is a landmark of ancient philosophy and a foundational work of animal ethics.

Porphyry explores questions that remain strikingly contemporary: our duties toward animals, their suffering, the ethics of eating them, and our relationship with the natural world.

Extensively modernized, annotated, and introduced by Renan Larue, this new edition makes his thought remarkably accessible. Clear, lively, and surprisingly modern, it reveals the enduring power of Porphyry's arguments and his major place in the history of animal ethics.