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To all of these animals we owe respect for their basic inviolable rights.
Author : Sue Donaldson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0199599661
To all of these animals we owe respect for their basic inviolable rights.
Author : Robert Garner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2005-07-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780719067105
Looking at the impact on political thinking caused by the idea that animals are morally important beings, this text suggests that liberalism, despite having weaknesses, is the most appropriate ideological position for the protection of animal interests.
Author : Robert Garner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0199936315
At the same time, he argues that humans have a greater interest in life and liberty than most species of nonhuman animals.
Author : Tom Regan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520054608
THE argument for animal rights, a classic since its appearance in 1983, from the moral philosophical point of view. With a new preface.
Author : Bob Torres
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 38,30 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1904859674
Using Marxism, anarchism, and social ecology to explore domination, power, and hierarchy, the author criticizes the use and abuse of animals in capitalist society and argues for the abolition of animal involvement in industry and as a human food source.
Author : Alasdair Cochrane
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0231158262
Alasdair Cochrane introduces an entirely new theory of animal rights grounded in their interests as sentient beings. He then applies this theory to different and underexplored policy areas, such as genetic engineering, pet-keeping, indigenous hunting, and religious slaughter. In contrast to other proponents of animal rights, Cochrane claims that because most sentient animals are not autonomous agents, they have no intrinsic interest in liberty. As such, he argues that our obligations to animals lie in ending practices that cause their suffering and death and do not require the liberation of animals. Cochrane's "interest-based rights approach" weighs the interests of animals to determine which is sufficient to impose strict duties on humans. In so doing, Cochrane acknowledges that sentient animals have a clear and discernable right not to be made to suffer and not to be killed, but he argues that they do not have a prima facie right to liberty. Because most animals possess no interest in leading freely chosen lives, humans have no moral obligation to liberate them. Moving beyond theory to the practical aspects of applied ethics, this pragmatic volume provides much-needed perspective on the realities and responsibilities of the human-animal relationship.
Author : Carl Cohen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780847696635
Do all animals have rights? Is it morally wrong to use mice or dogs in medical research, or rabbits and cows as food? How ought we resolve conflicts between the interests of humans and those of other animals? Philosophical inquiry is essential in addressing such questions; the answers given must have enormous practical importance. Here for the first time in the same volume, the animal rights debate is argued deeply and fully by the two most articulate and influential philosophers representing the opposing camps. Each makes his case in turn to the opposing case. The arguments meet head on: Are we humans morally justified in using animals as we do? A vexed and enduring controversy here receives its deepest and most eloquent exposition.
Author : Alasdair Cochrane
Publisher : Springer
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0230290590
Structured around the five most important schools within contemporary political theory: liberalism, utilitarianism, communitarianism, Marxism and feminism, this is the first introductory level text to offer an accessible overview on the status of animals in contemporary political theory.
Author : Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0198034733
Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum bring together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Addressing ethical questions about ownership, protection against unjustified suffering, and the ability of animals to make their own choices free from human control, the authors offer numerous different perspectives on animal rights and animal welfare. They show that whatever one's ultimate conclusions, the relationship between human beings and nonhuman animals is being fundamentally rethought. This book offers a state-of-the-art treatment of that rethinking.
Author : Linda Kalof
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0199927146
The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies tackles the infamous "animal question" how can humans rethink and reconfigure their relationships with other animals? Over the course of five sections and thirty chapters, the contributors investigate issues and concepts central to understanding our current relationship with other animals and the potential for coexistence in an ecological community of living beings.