| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 149 pages) |
| Contents |
Humanist and posthumanist antispeciesism / Cary Wolfe -- No escape / Harlan B. MIller -- Toward an agnostic animal ethics / Matthew Calarco -- Comments on Paola Cavalieri, "A dialogue on perfectionism" ; Notes on issues raised by Matthew Calarco / John M. Coetzee -- Pushing things forward / Paola Cavalieri -- Distracting difficulties / Harlan B. Miller -- On appetite, the right to life, and rational ethics / John M. Coetzee -- "On a certain blindness in human beings" / Carly Wolfe -- Between life and rights / Matthew Calarco |
| Summary |
While moral perfectionists rank conscious beings according to their cognitive abilities, Paola Cavalieri launches a more inclusive defense of all forms of subjectivity. In concert with Peter Singer, J.M. Coetzee, Harlan B. Miller, and other leading animal studies scholars, she expands our understanding of the nonhuman in such a way that the derogatory category of ""the animal"" becomes meaningless. In so doing, she presents a nonhierachical approach to ethics that better respects the value of the conscious self. Cavalieri opens with a dialogue between two imagined philosophers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-149) |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Animals (Philosophy)
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Animal psychology.
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Speciesism.
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Intellect
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NATURE -- Animal Rights.
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Animal psychology
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Animals (Philosophy)
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Intellect
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Speciesism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Singer, Peter
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| ISBN |
9780231518239 |
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0231518234 |
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