Author : S. O'Sullivan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230349188
Animals, Equality and Democracy examines the structure of animal protection legislation and finds that it is deeply inequitable, with a tendency to favour those animals the community is most likely to see and engage with. Siobhan O'Sullivan argues that these inequities violate fundamental principle of justice and transparency.
Author : Robert Garner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 23,45 MB
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1783487267
This edited collection of original essays focuses on the political dimension of the debate about our treatment of nonhuman animals.
Author : S. O'Sullivan
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230243873
Animals, Equality and Democracy examines the structure of animal protection legislation and finds that it is deeply inequitable, with a tendency to favour those animals the community is most likely to see and engage with. Siobhan O'Sullivan argues that these inequities violate fundamental principle of justice and transparency.
Author : S. O'Sullivan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230349188
Animals, Equality and Democracy examines the structure of animal protection legislation and finds that it is deeply inequitable, with a tendency to favour those animals the community is most likely to see and engage with. Siobhan O'Sullivan argues that these inequities violate fundamental principle of justice and transparency.
Author : Siobhan O'Sullivan
Publisher :
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 20,31 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Animal rights
ISBN :
Author : Janneke Vink
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 303041924X
This book is an interdisciplinary study centred on the political and legal position of animals in liberal democracies. With due concern for both animals and the sustainability of liberal democracies, The Open Society and Its Animals seeks to redefine animals’ political-legal position in the most successful political model of our time. Advancements in modern science point out that many animals are sentient and that, like humans, they have certain elementary interests. The revised perception of animals as beings with elementary interests raises questions concerning the liberal democratic institutional framework: does a liberal democracy have a responsibility towards the animals on its territory, and if so, what kind? Do animals need legal animal rights and lawyers to represent them in court, and should they also be represented in parliament? And how much change of this kind could a liberal democracy really endure? Vink addresses these and other pressing questions relating to the political and legal position of animals in this persuasive and authoritative work, compelling us to reconsider the relationship between the open society and the animals in it.
Author : Eva Meijer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1479809772
A groundbreaking argument for the political rights of animals In When Animals Speak, Eva Meijer develops a new, ground-breaking theory of language and politics, arguing that non-human animals speak—and, most importantly, act—politically. From geese and squid to worms and dogs, she highlights the importance of listening to animal voices, introducing ways to help us bridge the divide between the human and non-human world. Drawing on insights from science, philosophy, and politics, Meijer provides fascinating, real-world examples of animal communities who use their voices to speak, and act, in political ways. When Animals Speak encourages us to rethink our relations with other animals, showing that their voices should be taken into account as the starting point for a new interspecies democracy.
Author : Tobea Frebein
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2017-01-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781541232419
This book concerns problems and questions in human societies, smashes many stereotypes, delivers fundamental human nature, and provides sheer new definition of government. Here are some typical questions. What is the cardinal difference between animals and humans? It is the different degrees of freedom that have caused animals and humans going to different ways. True or false? Do humans live for freedom? Why are all things that governments should and must do about freedom? Why a BB is better than ten RRs? Why is a country a corrupt government? What is the dominant relationship among humans? Why human marriage is about business (or service) rather than love? How did once the survival of the unfittest become to the strongest and dominant beings? Why have humans become so populous while wild animals been on the verge of being extinct? Why do guys like hypocrites, blowhards and liars live financially and comfortably better than honest people? Does the problem of gun shooting in America come from the US government's abuse of freedom? Why is mistreatment of Amendment II the root of evil? Why rights are not always right? Why is justice nothing but the correction of abuse of freedom? Why is democracy people's political freedom? Is it true that equality is people's freedom of doing things with equal chances, fair advances and just results? Why are democracy, equality, justice, safety, peace, law and right are merely facets of freedom? Who benefit more from freedom? Businessmen? Are Indians freer than Chinese? Is religion really about faith, belief and worship? What's behind? Why are all religions in the world kinds of business? Why aren't these things - such as keeping law and order, controlling a country, governing a society and so forth - fundamentally government jobs? Does temporally banning Muslims from entering the USA especially benefit Muslim Americans? Why is capitalism the only economic system in the world during entire course of history? Is government the biggest capitalist in any country? Who is theoretically better qualified as the US President - Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? How better qualified? Most importantly, What should rationally be the definition of government? How to benchmark a government and its leaders? The pivotal themes of this book are FREEDOM, BUSINESS (SERVICE) and GOVERNMENT. Should its new definition of government deserve to be followed in the whole world? You - the readers - judge, and time will tell. But all things begin with animals talking about humans versus animals. ...
Author : Sue Donaldson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0199599661
To all of these animals we owe respect for their basic inviolable rights.
Author : Matthew Scully
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2003-10-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1429980435
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." --Genesis 1:24-26 In this crucial passage from the Old Testament, God grants mankind power over animals. But with this privilege comes the grave responsibility to respect life, to treat animals with simple dignity and compassion. Somewhere along the way, something has gone wrong. In Dominion, we witness the annual convention of Safari Club International, an organization whose wealthier members will pay up to $20,000 to hunt an elephant, a lion or another animal, either abroad or in American "safari ranches," where the animals are fenced in pens. We attend the annual International Whaling Commission conference, where the skewed politics of the whaling industry come to light, and the focus is on developing more lethal, but not more merciful, methods of harvesting "living marine resources." And we visit a gargantuan American "factory farm," where animals are treated as mere product and raised in conditions of mass confinement, bred for passivity and bulk, inseminated and fed with machines, kept in tightly confined stalls for the entirety of their lives, and slaughtered in a way that maximizes profits and minimizes decency. Throughout Dominion, Scully counters the hypocritical arguments that attempt to excuse animal abuse: from those who argue that the Bible's message permits mankind to use animals as it pleases, to the hunter's argument that through hunting animal populations are controlled, to the popular and "scientifically proven" notions that animals cannot feel pain, experience no emotions, and are not conscious of their own lives. The result is eye opening, painful and infuriating, insightful and rewarding. Dominion is a plea for human benevolence and mercy, a scathing attack on those who would dismiss animal activists as mere sentimentalists, and a demand for reform from the government down to the individual. Matthew Scully has created a groundbreaking work, a book of lasting power and importance for all of us.
