Dignity, Pleasures, Vulgarity (eBook)

Philosophy + Animal Rights

James Brusseau (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
70 Seiten
Overflow (Verlag)
978-0-9800567-1-6 (ISBN)

Infos

While writing a chapter on contemporary animal rights for an ethics book, philosophy professor James Brusseau began asking how the animal studies could reflect back to reveal human truths. Dignity, Pleasures, Vulgarity pursues that question as it ranges from an accessible look at todays philosophy of animal ethics, to an investigation of what we can learn about ourselves in the midst of thinking about animals.Set against the backdrop of the wine, sex, love, and blood soaked running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, this short and compelling narrative nonfiction explores how animals human and nonhuman exist together.

Inhalt

1  WHAT ARE DIGNITY AND PLEASURE?    3



What is Dignity?



Pleasures in Pamplona



Dignity or Pleasure?



2  DIGNITY AND ANIMAL RIGHTS    14



Which Animals Have Dignity, and Therefore Rights?



Supporting Dignity: The Human/Animal Bind



Another Version of the Human/Animal Bind



Dignity and Those Animals Closest to Us



3  PLEASURE AND ANIMAL RIGHTS    27



The Pleasure and Pain Approach to Ethics



The Pleasure and Pain Approach to Animal Ethics



Pleasure and the Bullfight



Pleasure and Those Animals Closest to Us



4  VULGARITY    39



Two Kinds of Vulgarity



Vulgarity, the Bullfight, Animal Rights



Citations    50



Image Credits    52



About the Author    56

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.3.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Schlagworte: animal rights • Animal welfare • Brusseau • ethics • Morality • Philosophy • regan • singer
• ISBN-10: 0-9800567-1-3 / 0980056713
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9800567-1-6 / 9780980056716