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1 online resource (xix, 370 pages) |
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Foreword by Bernard E. Rollin -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Human ""Superiority"" and the Argument from Marginal Cases -- Candidates for Inclusion in the Moral Community -- Frequently Held Views on Who Counts Morally: Homocentrism -- Frequently Held Views on Who Counts Morally: The Full-Personhood View -- The Argument from Marginal Cases: Two Versions -- Chapter 2. Responses to the Argument from Marginal Cases -- Failure to Address the Issue -- Unsuccessful Attacks on the Argument from Marginal Cases -- The Scope of the Argument from Marginal Cases -- The Final Response |
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Chapter 3. Speciesism and Full Personhood -- The Speciesism Debate: A Brief History -- Attempts to Show That Membership in a Species Characterized by Full Personhood Is a Morally Relevant Characteristic -- Attempts to Show That Speciesism Is Justified Even if Species Membership Is Not a Morally Relevant Characteristic -- Implications of the Failure to Justify Speciesism -- Chapter 4. Utilitarianism and the Protection of Innocent Life -- Utilitarianism and the Full-Personhood View -- Utilitarianism and the Charge of Inadequate Individual Protection |
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Utilitarian Attempts to Reject the Replaceability Argument -- Rejection of the Extended Prior-Existence View -- Preference Utilitarianism and Replaceability -- Return to the Case of the Wretched Child -- Total-View Utilitarianism and Moral Rights -- Chapter 5. Justification and Judgment: Claiming and Respecting Basic Moral Rights -- Attempts to Provide Justification for the Moral Considerability and Significance of Beings Who Are Not Full Persons -- Justifying the Rights View -- Respecting Basic Moral Rights: Obligations and Conflicts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Animal rights |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-359) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Animal 2017 Bildband gnd |
| Subject |
Animal rights.
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Human rights.
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Philosophical anthropology.
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philosophical anthropology.
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08.31 metaphysics.
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08.38 ethics.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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NATURE -- Animal Rights.
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Animal rights
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Human rights
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Philosophical anthropology
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Bioethik
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Ethik
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Tierschutz
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Tiere
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Ethiek.
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Dieren.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822396048 |
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0822396041 |
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082231648X |
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9780822316480 |
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