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The Moral Rights of Animals (Paperback)
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The Moral Rights of Animals (Paperback)
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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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