Author: Christine Marion KorsgaardPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198753853
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Presents a compelling new view of our moral relationships to the other animals
Fellow Creatures
Author: Christine Marion KorsgaardPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198753853
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Presents a compelling new view of our moral relationships to the other animals
Animal Wise
Author: Virginia MorellPublisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN: 0307461440
Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising examination into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals.
Animal Grace
Author: Mary Lou RandourPublisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1577313224
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Animal Grace explores the human-animal relationship as a path to enlightenment. Randour calls for readers to examine how their lives intersect with members of other species and ensure that those interactions are based on compassion and respect.
Fellow Creatures
Author: Christine M. KorsgaardPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191068381
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, she offers an explanation of why animals are the sorts of beings for whom things can be good or bad. She then turns to Kant's argument for the value of humanity to show that rationality commits us to claiming the standing of ends-in-ourselves, in two senses. Kant argued that as autonomous beings, we claim to be ends-in-ourselves when we claim the standing to make laws for ourselves and each other. Korsgaard argues that as beings who have a good, we also claim to be ends-in-ourselves when we take the things that are good for us to be good absolutely and so worthy of pursuit. The first claim commits us to joining with other autonomous beings in relations of moral reciprocity. The second claim commits us to treating the good of every sentient creature as something of absolute importance. Korsgaard argues that human beings are not more important than the other animals, that our moral nature does not make us superior to the other animals, and that our unique capacities do not make us better off than the other animals. She criticizes the "marginal cases" argument and advances a new view of moral standing as attaching to the atemporal subjects of lives. She criticizes Kant's own view that our duties to animals are indirect, and offers a non-utilitarian account of the relation between pleasure and the good. She also addresses a number of directly practical questions: whether we have the right to eat animals, experiment on them, make them work for us and fight in our wars, and keep them as pets; and how to understand the wrong that we do when we cause a species to go extinct.
A Letter from a Man to His Fellow-creatures, Relating to Several Important Points of Religion and Morality: Shewing the Power We Have Over Our Own Thoughts, and the Advantages Arising from a Proper Exercise Thereof
Author: ManPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion and ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Moral Lives of Animals
Author: Dale PetersonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608193462
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Examines the moral behavior observed in animals and argues that human beings are not the only species to live by the principles of cooperation, kindness, and empathy.
Justice and Food Security in a Changing Climate
Author: European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics. CongressPublisher:
ISBN: 9789086869152
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The UN's Sustainable Development Goals saw the global community agree to end hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. However, the number of chronically undernourished people is increasing continuously. Ongoing climate change and the action needed to adapt to it are very likely to aggravate this situation by limiting agricultural land and water resources and changing environmental conditions for food production. Climate change and the actions it requires raise questions of justice, especially regarding food security. These key concerns of ethics and justice for food security due to climate change challenges are the focus of this book, which brings together work by scholars from a wide range of disciplines and a multitude of perspectives. These experts discuss the challenges to food security posed by mitigation, geoengineering, and adaptation measures that tackle the impacts of climate change. Others address the consequences of a changing climate for agriculture and food production and how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected food security and animal welfare.
The Soul of All Living Creatures
Author: Vint Virga, D.V.M.Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307718875
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
As profiled in the New York Times Magazine… Based on the author’s twenty-five years of experience as a veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist, The Soul of All Living Creatures delves into the inner lives of animals – from whales, wolves, and leopards to mice, dogs, and cats – and explores the relationships we forge with them. As an emergency room clinician four years out of veterinary school, Dr. Vint Virga had a life-changing experience: he witnessed the power of simple human contact and compassion to affect the recovery of a dog struggling to survive after being hit by a car. Observing firsthand the remarkably strong connection between humans and animals inspired him to explore the world from the viewpoint of animals and taught him to respect the kinship that connects us. With The Soul of All Living Creatures, Virga draws from his decades in veterinary practice to reveal how, by striving to perceive the world as animals do, we can enrich our own appreciation of life, enhance our character, nurture our relationships, improve our communication with others, reorder our values, and deepen our grasp of spirituality. Virga discerningly illuminates basic traits shared by both humans and animals and makes animal behavior meaningful, relevant, and easy to understand. Insightful and eloquent, The Soul of All Living Creatures offers an intimate journey into the lives of our fellow creatures and a thought-provoking promise of what we can learn from spending time with them.
The Outermost House
Author: Henry BestonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Long recognized as a classic of American nature writing. This chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach was written in longhand at the kitchen table, in a little room overlooking the North Atlantic and the dunes. In 1964, the Cape Cod house was officially proclaimed a National Literary Landmark. In 1978, a massive winter storm swept it off its foundation and out to sea.
Travels with Our Fellow Creatures
Author: VariousPublisher: Perigee Trade
ISBN: 9780399526312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This masterful menagerie of prose and poetry--by a long list of contributors ranging from J.R. Ackerley to Walt Whitman--is sure to provoke tears, laughter, and much thought about those who walk, swim, and fly planet Earth with us.