Screen LibraryFellow creatures : our obligations to the other animals /
Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of our moral relationships to the other animals. She offers challenging answers to such questions as: Are people superior to animals, and does it matter morally if we are? Is it all right for us to eat animals, experiment on them, make them work...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Uehiro series in practical ethics
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Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of our moral relationships to the other animals. She offers challenging answers to such questions as: Are people superior to animals, and does it matter morally if we are? Is it all right for us to eat animals, experiment on them, make them work for us, and keep them as pets? "This book argues that we are obligated to treat all sentient animals as 'ends in themselves.' Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, it offers an explanation of why animals are the sorts of beings who have a good. Drawing on a revised version of Kant's argument for the value of humanity, it argues that rationality commits us to claiming the standing of ends in ourselves in two senses. As autonomous beings, we claim to be ends in ourselves when we claim the standing to make laws for ourselves and each other. As beings who have a good, we also claim to be ends in ourselves wh |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 252 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-245) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780198753858 0198753853 9780191068379 0191068373 |
| Index Number: | QL85 |
| CLC: |
Q95-05 Q958.12 |
| Call Number: | Q958.12/K849 |
| Contents: | Part I. Human beings and other animals. Are people more important than the other animals? ; Animal selves and the good ; What's different about being human? ; The case against human superiority -- Part II. Immanuel Kant and the animals. Kant, marginal cases, and moral standing ; Kant against the animals, part 1: The indirect duty view ; Kant against the animals, part 2: Reciprocity and the grounds of obligation ; A Kantian case for our obligations to the other animals ; The role of pleasure and pain -- Part III. Consequences. The animal antinomy, part 1: Creation ethics ; Species, communitie |