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The Moral Rights of Animals (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,215
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The Moral Rights of Animals (Hardcover): Mylan Engel, Gary Lynn Comstock

The Moral Rights of Animals (Hardcover)

Mylan Engel, Gary Lynn Comstock; Contributions by Tom Regan, Jeremy Garrett, Mylan Engel, Nathan Nobis, Anne Baril, Aaron Simmons, Molly Gardner, Evelyn Pluhar

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Edited by Mylan Engel Jr. and Gary Lynn Comstock, this book employs different ethical lenses, including classical deontology, libertarianism, commonsense morality, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and the capabilities approach, to explore the philosophical basis for the strong animal rights view, which holds that animals have moral rights equal in strength to the rights of humans, while also addressing what are undoubtedly the most serious challenges to the strong animal rights stance, including the challenges posed by rights nihilism, the "kind" argument against animal rights, the problem of predation, and the comparative value of lives. In addition, contributors explore the practical import of animal rights both from a social policy standpoint and from the standpoint of personal ethical decisions concerning what to eat and whether to hunt animals. Unlike other volumes on animal rights, which focus primarily on the legal rights of animals, and unlike other anthologies on animal ethics, which tend to cover a wide variety of topics but only devote a few articles to each topic, this volume focuses exclusively on the question of whether animals have moral rights and the practical import of such rights. The Moral Rights of Animals will be an indispensable resource for scholars, teachers, and students in the fields of animal ethics, applied ethics, ethical theory, and human-animal studies, as well as animal rights advocates and policy makers interested in improving the treatment of animals.

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Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2016
Editors: Mylan Engel • Gary Lynn Comstock
Contributors: Tom Regan • Jeremy Garrett • Mylan Engel • Nathan Nobis • Anne Baril • Aaron Simmons • Molly Gardner • Evelyn Pluhar
Dimensions: 239 x 157 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3190-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Animals & society > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
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LSN: 1-4985-3190-3
Barcode: 9781498531900

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