Animal Question Why Non-Human Animals Deserve Human Rights

Name: Animal Question Why Non-Human Animals Deserve Human Rights
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ISBN: 9780195143805

ISBN-10: 0195143809

ISBN-13: 9780195143805

Edition: 2001

Authors: Paola Cavalieri, Catherine Woollard

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How much do animals matter--morally? Can we keep considering them as second class beings, to be used merely for our benefit? Or, should we offer them some form of moral egalitarianism? Inserting itself into the passionate debate over animal rights, this fascinating, provocative work by renowned scholar Paola Cavalieri advances a radical proposal: that we extend basic human rights to the nonhuman animals we currently treat as "things." Cavalieri first goes back in time, tracing the roots of the debate from the 1970s, then explores not only the ethical but also the scientific viewpoints, examining the debate's precedents in mainstream Western philosophy. She considers the main proposals of…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/6/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 5.70" wide x 8.10" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.880




The Cultural Premises


A Problem for Political Philosophy: How to Establish Human Equality


Bioethical Dilemmas: Who Is Human?


After Behaviorism, or How Animal Minds Started to Exist Again



The Problem of Moral Status


Moral Agents and Moral Patients


In Search of the Criteria


Inclusion in the Moral Community



The Traditional Accounts


Absolute Dismissal, or Descartes and God's Clocks


The Superiority of Rational Nature: How Kant Created Humanism


Ethics Makes a Turn: Utilitarianism


After the Inclusion



Speciesism


Traditional Speciesism: Attributing Weight to Biological Characteristics


The Correspondence Approach: Species as a Mark of the Morally Relevant Characteristics


An Attempt to Grant Paradigmatic Status to Nonparadigmatic Humans


Retreat: Comparable Status, Different Treatment



Welfare and the Value of Life


Welfare


When Killing Is Wrong


The Value of Life: Qualitative Theories


The Value of Life: Quantitative Theories


Internal Perspectives on Prudential Value


An Open Problem


The Notion of Person as an Alternative Solution?



A Minimal Normative Proposal


Human Rights: Sphere of Reference


Human Rights: Essential Characteristics


Human Rights: Justification


For an Expanded Theory of Human Rights


Notes


Bibliography


Index