PORFIR – DESPRE REFUZUL HRANEI ANIMALE CA SEMN AL DEMNITAȚII OMULUI
PORPHYRY – ON THE ANIMAL FOOD REFUSAL AS A SIGN OF HUMAN DIGNITY

Summary/Abstract: In this article, the author presents Porphyry’s position on the need for man to give up animal food, as it is shown in his treatise On Abstinence From Animal Food. The author outlines briefly the philosophy on which Porphyry bases, which is that of Neoplatonism and claims that man is related both to animals by soul and gods, and if he wants to return to the stage of pure spiritual being he must abandon all the habits that subordinate him to the body. Since Porphyry’s treatise is written in a polemic manner against the followers of animal food, the author presents successively, in a systematic way, the arguments of the followers of animal food, Porphyry’s arguments for abandoning animal food as well as Porphyry’s rejections of the arguments of his opponents. The author points out that for Porphyry, giving up to animal food is essential that man reached his true dignity of human condition.

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