The Moral Rights of Animals.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781498531917
- 179.3
- HV4708.M73 2016
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Moral Rights of Animals -- Part I: Theoretical Prospects and Challenges for Animal Rights -- Chapter One: The Case for Animal Rights -- Chapter Two: Animal Rights for Libertarians -- Chapter Three: Do Animals Have Rights and Does It Matter If They Don't? -- Chapter Four: Tom Regan on "Kind" Arguments against Animal Rights and for Human Rights -- Chapter Five: Equality, Flourishing, and the Problem of Predation -- Part II: Animal Rights and the Comparative Value of Lives -- Chapter Six: Do All Subjects of a Life Have an Equal Right to Life? -- Chapter Seven: The Interspecies Killing Problem -- Chapter Eight: Respecting Rights-Holders -- Chapter Nine: Subjects-of-a-Life, the Argument from Risk, and the Significance of Self-Consciousness -- Chapter Ten: La Mettrie's Objection -- Part III: Animal Rights in Practice -- Chapter Eleven: Rights and Capabilities -- Chapter Twelve: Vegetarianism in the Balance -- Chapter Thirteen: The Benefit of Regan's Doubt -- Chapter Fourteen: A Moral License to Kill? -- Epilogue -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
This book explores the moral rights of animals through several lenses, such as classical deontology, libertarianism, morality, virtue ethics, and utilitarianism. It addresses the challenges to rights nihilism's strong animal rights position, the "kind" argument against animal rights, the problem of predation, and the comparative value of lives.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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