Great Ape Project Equality Beyond Humanity

Name: Great Ape Project Equality Beyond Humanity
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ISBN: 9780312118181

ISBN-10: 031211818X

ISBN-13: 9780312118181

Edition: 6th

Authors: Paola Cavalieri, Peter Singer

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A compelling and revolutionary work that calls for the immediate extension of our human rights to the great apes. The Great Ape Project looks forward to a new stage in the development of the community of equals, whereby the great apes-chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans-will actually receive many of the same protections and rights that are already accorded to humans. This profound collection of thirty-one essays by the world's most distinguished observers of free-living apes make up a uniquely satisfying whole, blending observation and interpretation in a highly persuasive case for a complete reassessment of the moral status of our closest kin.

Book details

List price: $22.99
Edition: 6th
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 12/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University.



Preface


A Declaration on Great Apes



Encounters with Free-living Apes



Chimpanzees - Bridging the Gap




Meeting a Gorilla




Chimpanzees Are Always New to Me




Conversations with Apes



Chimpanzees' Use of Sign Language




Language and the Orang-utan: The Old 'Person' of the Forest




The Case for the Personhood of Gorillas




Similarity and Difference



Gaps in the Mind




The Third Chimpanzee




Common Sense, Cognitive Ethology and Evolution




What's in a Classification?




Apes and the Idea of Kindred




Ambiguous Apes




Spirits Dressed in Furs?




Ethics



Apes, Humans, Aliens, Vampires and Robots




Why Darwinians Should Support Equal Treatment for Other Apes




Profoundly Intellectually Disabled Humans and the Great Apes: A Comparison




Who's Like Us?




A Basis for (Interspecies) Equality




Ill-gotten Gains




The Ascent of Apes - Broadening the Moral Community




Sentientism




Great Apes and the Human Resistance to Equality




Apes as Persons



The Wahokies




Humans, Nonhumans and Personhood




Personhood, Property and Legal Competence




Great Apes as Anthropological Subjects - Deconstructing Anthropocentrism




Aping Persons - Pro and Con




Reality



Items of Property




The Chimp Farm




They Are Us




Epilogue


The Great Ape Project - and Beyond