| Description |
viii, 184 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index. |
| Contents |
1. The cultural premises -- A problem for political philosophy : how to establish human equality -- Bioethical dilemmas : who is human -- After behaviorism, or How animal minds started to exist again -- 2. The problem of moral status -- Moral agents and moral patients -- In search of the criteria -- Inclusionin the moral community -- 3. The traditional accounts -- Absolute dismissal, or Descartes and God's clocks -- The superiority of rational nature : how Kant created humanism -- Ethics makes a turn : utilitarianism -- After the inclusion -- 4. Speciesism -- Traditional speciesism : attributing weight to biological characteristics -- The correspondence approach : species as a mark of the morally relevant characteristics -- An attempt to grant paradigmatic status to nonparadigmatic humans -- Retreat : comparable status, different treatment -- 5. Welfare -- When killing is wrong -- The value of life : qualitative theories -- The value of life : quantitative theories -- Internal perspectives on prudential value -- An open problem -- The notion of person as an alternative solution -- 6. A minimal normative proposal -- Human rights : sphere of reference -- Human rights : essential characteristics -- Human rights : justification -- For an expanded theory of human rights. |
| Subject |
Animal rights.
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Speciesism.
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| Added Title |
Questione animale. English
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| ISBN |
0195143809 alkaline paper |
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