Apr-12-2011, 06:44 PM (UTC)
I am currently reading The Case of the Animals Against the People, a part of the Rasa'il ikhwan as-safa' wa khillan al-wafa, an encyclopedia by the Islamic philosophers known as the Bretheren of Purity. (These guys lived a thousand years ago, by the way.) It is a fictional story, but the plot is mostly there to frame a lot of philosophical arguments.
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