Ethics Humans And Other Animals

Author : Rosalind Hursthouse
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113519923X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics, Humans and Other Animals written by Rosalind Hursthouse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory textbook is ideally suited to newcomers to philosophy and ethical problems. Rosalind Hursthouse carefully introduces the three standard approaches in current ethical theory: utilitarianism, rights, and virtue ethics. She links each chapter to readings from key exponents such as Peter Singer and Mary Midgley and asks students to think critically about these readings for themselves. Key features include clear activities and activities, chapter summaries and guides to further reading.

Author : Rosalind Hursthouse
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415212427
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics, Humans and Other Animals written by Rosalind Hursthouse and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introductory textbook on the ethics of our treatment of animals, introducing the different approaches to current ethical theory and ideally suited to those coming to philosophy and ethical problems for the first time.

Author : Rosalind Hursthouse
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415212413
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics, Humans and Other Animals written by Rosalind Hursthouse and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introductory textbook on the ethics of our treatment of animals, introducing the different approaches to current ethical theory and ideally suited to those coming to philosophy and ethical problems for the first time.

Author : Frans B. M. DE WAAL
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674033175
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Natured written by Frans B. M. DE WAAL and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To observe a dog's guilty look. to witness a gorilla's self-sacrifice for a wounded mate, to watch an elephant herd's communal effort on behalf of a stranded calf--to catch animals in certain acts is to wonder what moves them. Might there he a code of ethics in the animal kingdom? Must an animal be human to he humane? In this provocative book, a renowned scientist takes on those who have declared ethics uniquely human Making a compelling case for a morality grounded in biology, he shows how ethical behavior is as much a matter of evolution as any other trait, in humans and animals alike. World famous for his brilliant descriptions of Machiavellian power plays among chimpanzees-the nastier side of animal life--Frans de Waal here contends that animals have a nice side as well. Making his case through vivid anecdotes drawn from his work with apes and monkeys and holstered by the intriguing, voluminous data from his and others' ongoing research, de Waal shows us that many of the building blocks of morality are natural: they can he observed in other animals. Through his eyes, we see how not just primates but all kinds of animals, from marine mammals to dogs, respond to social rules, help each other, share food, resolve conflict to mutual satisfaction, even develop a crude sense of justice and fairness. Natural selection may be harsh, but it has produced highly successful species that survive through cooperation and mutual assistance. De Waal identifies this paradox as the key to an evolutionary account of morality, and demonstrates that human morality could never have developed without the foundation of fellow feeling our species shares with other animals. As his work makes clear, a morality grounded in biology leads to an entirely different conception of what it means to he human--and humane.

Author : John Dupré
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199247097
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humans and Other Animals written by John Dupré and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Dupr explores the ways in which we categorize animals, including humans, and comes to refreshingly radical conclusions. It is a mistake to think that each organism has an essence that determines its necessary place in a unique hierarchy. We should reject the misguided concepts of a universal human nature and normality in human behavior. He shows that we must take a pluralistic view of biology and the human sciences.

Author : Frank Palmeri
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351929410
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Culture written by Frank Palmeri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining historical and interpretive work, this collection examines changing perceptions of and relations between human and nonhuman animals in Britain over the long eighteenth century. Persistent questions concern modes of representing animals and animal-human hybrids, as well as the ethical issues raised by the human uses of other animals. From the animal men of Thomas Rowlandson to the part animal-part human creature of Victor Frankenstein, hybridity serves less as a metaphor than as a metonym for the intersections of humans and other animals. The contributors address such recurring questions as the implications of the Enlightenment project of naming and classifying animals, the equating of non-European races and nonhuman animals in early ethnographic texts, and the desire to distinguish the purely human from the entirely nonhuman animal. Gulliver's Travels and works by Mary and Percy Shelley emerge as key texts for this study. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students who work in animal, colonial, gender, and cultural studies; and will appeal to general readers concerned with the representation of animals and their treatment by humans.

Author : Lori Gruen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107219342
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Animals written by Lori Gruen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this fresh and comprehensive introduction to animal ethics, Lori Gruen weaves together poignant and provocative case studies with discussions of ethical theory, urging readers to engage critically and empathetically reflect on our treatment of other animals. In clear and accessible language, Gruen provides a survey of the issues central to human-animal relations and a reasoned new perspective on current key debates in the field. She analyses and explains a range of theoretical positions and poses challenging questions that directly encourage readers to hone their ethical reasoning skills and to develop a defensible position about their own practices. Her book will be an invaluable resource for students in a wide range of disciplines including ethics, environmental studies, veterinary science, women's studies, and the emerging field of animal studies and is an engaging account of the subject for general readers with no prior background in philosophy"--

Author : Tom Regan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520054608
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case for Animal Rights written by Tom Regan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE argument for animal rights, a classic since its appearance in 1983, from the moral philosophical point of view. With a new preface.

Author : Christine Marion Korsgaard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198753853
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fellow Creatures written by Christine Marion Korsgaard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a compelling new view of our moral relationships to the other animals

Author : Dale Jamieson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199251452
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morality's Progress written by Dale Jamieson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The summation of nearly three decades of work by a leading figure in environmental ethics and bioethics. The 22 papers are invigoratingly diverse, but together tell a unified story about various aspects of the morality of our relationships to animals and to nature.