| Description |
x, 249 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
The moral basis of vegetarianism -- Utilitarianism, vegetarianism, and animal rights -- Animal experimentation -- Animal rights, human wrongs -- Why whaling is wrong -- An examination and defense of one argument concerning animal rights -- Animals and the law -- What sorts of beings can have rights? -- The nature and possibility of an environmental ethic --Environmental ethics and the ambiguity of the Native Americans' relationship with nature |
| Summary |
"Papers and lectures written and delivered over the past six years or so on the general topic of human obligations to nonhumans"--Pref.Includes index. Bibliography: p. 241-246. The moral basis of vegetarianism -- Utilitarianism, vegetarianism, and animal rights -- Animal experimentation -- Animal rights, human wrongs -- Why whaling is wrong -- An examination and defense of one argument concerning animal rights -- Animals and the law -- What sorts of beings can have rights? -- The nature and possibility of an environmental ethic -- Environmental ethics and the ambiguity of the Native Americans' relationship with nature |
| Analysis |
Animal rights |
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Animal welfare Law and legislation |
| Notes |
"Papers and lectures written and delivered over the past six years or so on the general topic of human obligations to nonhumans"--Pref |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 241-246 |
| Subject |
Animal rights.
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Animal welfare -- Law and legislation.
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Animal welfare.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Animal Rights.
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Animal Welfare.
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Legislation, Veterinary.
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Animals.
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Bioethics.
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| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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| LC no. |
81016469 |
| ISBN |
0520045718 |
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