Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents is the first-ever
comprehensive examination of views of animals in the history of
Western philosophy, from Homeric Greece to the twentieth century.
In recent decades, increased interest in this area has been
accompanied by scholars' willingness to conceive of animal
experience in terms of human mental capacities: consciousness,
self-awareness, intention, deliberation, and in some instances, at
least limited moral agency. This conception has been facilitated by
a shift from behavioural to cognitive ethology (the science of
animal behavior), and by attempts to affirm the essential
similarities between the psychophysical makeup of human beings and
animals. Gary Steiner sketches the terms of the current debates
about animals and relates these to their historical antecedents,
focusing on both the dominant anthropocentric voices and those
recurring voices that instead assert a fundamental kinship relation
between human beings and animals.He concludes with a discussion of
the problem of balancing the need to recognize a human indebtedness
to animals and the natural world with the need to preserve a sense
of the uniqueness and dignity of the human individual.
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