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Subhuman - The Moral Psychology of Human Attitudes to Animals (Hardcover)
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Subhuman - The Moral Psychology of Human Attitudes to Animals (Hardcover)
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When Harambe, a now-famous gorilla at the Cincinnati zoo, was shot
for endangering a small child, animal rights activists protested,
calling into question moral reasoning that privileges the
possibility of injury to a human over definite violence to an
animal. Many others, though less vehement in their objection,
voiced the same questions: was the gorilla any worse than the
negligent parents? Doesn't Harambe have rights just like you and
me? How do we decide what animals deserve and how we ought to treat
them? To what extent are our attitudes towards animals embedded in
our subconscious and immune to reason? The foundations of our moral
attitudes to animals are more complex than many may appreciate.
Subhuman takes an interdisciplinary approach to these questions,
drawing from research in philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, law,
history, sociology, economics, and anthropology, to unearth
surprising revelations about human relationships with animals. T.J.
Kasperbauer argues provocatively that behind our positive and
negative attitudes to animals is an enduring concern that animals
pose a threat to our humanness. Namely, our need to ensure animals'
inferiority to human beings affects both our kindness and cruelty
to animals. Kasperbauer develops this idea by looking at research
on the phenomenon of dehumanization, revealing that our attitudes
to other humans are predicted and reflected in our treatment of
other species. In making his case, Kasperbauer provides a critical
survey of leading theories that range over the role of animals in
human evolutionary history, the psychology of meat-eating and
keeping pets, feelings of fear and disgust toward animals, the use
of animal minds to determine their moral status, and the "expanding
moral circle" hypothesis. By exploring the psychological obstacles
humans face in meeting ethical demands, Kasperbauer sets forth new
and fascinating ways of thinking about our moral obligations to
animals, and how we might correct them.
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