Animalkind

What We Owe to Animals

Jean Kazez (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2010
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-9937-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Animalkind:What We Owe to Animals explores the crucial ethical differences between humans and animals. Occupying the middle ground between extreme egalitarianism and outright dismissal, the book instead advocates a position of respect for animals, treatment not afforded to the current inhabitants of factory farms and animal labs.

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By exploring the ethical differences between humans and animals, Animalkind establishes a middle ground between egalitarianism and outright dismissal of animal rights.

A thought-provoking foray into our complex and contradictory relationship with animals
Advocates that we owe each animal due respect
Offers readers a sensible alternative to extremism by speaking of respect and compassion for animals, not rights
Balances philosophical analysis with intriguing facts and engaging tales

Autor

Jean Kazez teaches philosophy at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She is the author of The Weight of Things: Philosophy and the Good Life (Blackwell, 2007) and has written about ethics, religion, happiness, and the arts for several magazines.

Inhalt

Introduction: Wondering in Alaska. Part I: Before.

1. The Myth of Consent

2. The Order of Things.  

Part II: The Nature of the Beast.

3. Animal Consciousness.

4. Dumb Brutes?  

Part III: All Due Respect.

5. The Lives of Animals.

6. Caveman Ethics.  

Part IV: Moral Disorders.

7. Going, Going, Wrong.

8. Science and Survival.  

Part V: Next.

9. Vanishing Animals.

10. The Endless Story.

Annotated Sources.

Acknowledgments.

Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2010
• Verlagsort: Hoboken
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 163 x 236 mm
• Gewicht: 472 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4051-9937-7 / 1405199377
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-9937-7 / 9781405199377
• Zustand: Neuware