Ethics and Animals
Published on 5. May 1983
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 400 pages
978-0-89603-053-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume is a collection of essays concerned with the morality of hu man treatment of nonhuman animals. The contributors take very different approaches to their topics and come to widely divergent conclusions. The goal of the volume as a whole is to shed a brighter light upon an aspect of human life-our relations with the other animals-that has recently seen a great increase in interest and in the generation of heat. The discussions and debates contained herein are addressed by the contributors to each other, to the general public, and to the academic world, especially the biological, philosophical, and political parts of that world. The essays are organized into eight sections by topics, each sec tion beginning with a brief introduction linking the papers and the sec tions to one another. There is also a general introduction and an Epilog that suggests alternate possible ways of organizing the material. The first two sections are concerned with the place of animals in the human world: Section I with the ways humans view animals in literature, philosophy, and other parts of human culture, and Section II with the place of animals in human legal and moral community. The next three sections concern comparisons between human and nonhuman animals: Section III on the rights and wrongs of killing, Section IV on the humanity of animals and the animality of humans, and Section V on questions of the conflict of human and animal interests.
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983
Language
English
Place of publication
Totowa
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Illustrations
XII, 400 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
628 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89603-053-4 (9780896030534)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4612-5623-6
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Content
Introduction: 'Platonists' and 'Aristotelians'.- Section I: Nonhumans in the Eyes and Minds of Humans.- Animal Rights, Human Wrongs.- Animal Rights Revisited.- Knowing Our Place in the Animal World.- The Clouded Mirror: Animal Stereotypes and Human Cruelty.- Section II: Morality, Legality, and Animals.- Moral Community and Moral Order: The Intensive and Extensive Limits of Interaction.- The Legal and Moral Bases of Animal Rights.- Section III: Humans and Other Animals-Killing.- Life, Death, and Animals.- Killing Persons and Other Beings.- Interspecific Justice and Animal Slaughter.- Section IV: Humans and Other Animals-Linkages and Likenesses.- Humans, Animals, and 'Animal Behavior'.- Ecology, Morality, and Hunting.- Humans as Hunting Animals.- Apes and Language Research.- Section V: Human Interests, Porcine Interests, and Chipmunk Interests.- The Priority of Human Interests.- Comments on "The Priority of Human Interests,".- The Case Against Raising and Killing Animals for Food.- Postscript.- Section VI: Animal Rights?.- Do Animals Have a Right to Life?.- On Why We Would Do Better To Jettison Moral Rights.- Section VII: Breadth of Vision.- Philosophy, Ecology, Animal Welfare, and the 'Rights' Question.- Deciding What to Kill.- Section VIII: Facts and Acts.- Chicken-Environment Interactions.- Against A Scientific Justification of Animal Experiments.- "Animal Liberation" as Crime: The Hawaii Dolphin Case.- Fighting for Animal Rights: Issues and Strategies.- Epilog.- Works Cited.