
The Animal Question
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- Intro
- Contents
- 1 The Cultural Premises
- A Problem for Political Philosophy: How to Establish Human Equality
- Bioethical Dilemmas: Who Is Human?
- After Behaviorism, or How Animal Minds Started to Exist Again
- 2 The Problem of Moral Status
- Moral Agents and Moral Patients
- In Search of the Criteria
- Inclusion in the Moral Community
- 3 The Traditional Accounts
- Absolute Dismissal, or Descartes and God's Clocks
- The Superiority of Rational Nature: How Kant Created Humanism
- Ethics Makes a Turn: Utilitarianism
- After the Inclusion
- 4 Speciesism
- Traditional Speciesism: Attributing Weight to Biological Characteristics
- The Correspondence Approach: Species as a Mark of the Morally Relevant Characteristics
- An Attempt to Grant Paradigmatic Status to Nonparadigmatic Humans
- Retreat: Comparable Status, Different Treatment
- 5 Welfare and the Value of Life
- Welfare
- When Killing Is Wrong
- The Value of Life: Qualitative Theories
- The Value of Life: Quantitative Theories
- Internal Perspectives on Prudential Value
- An Open Problem
- The Notion of Person as an Alternative Solution?
- 6 A Minimal Normative Proposal
- Human Rights: Sphere of Reference
- Human Rights: Essential Characteristics
- Human Rights: Justification
- For an Expanded Theory of Human Rights
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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