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Let's imagine philosophers as storytellers in some fashion. What
stories would they tell about animals, about the wallaby and the
kangaroo? What would they say to the Martian about how one lives
with animals, or because they are philosophers given to thinking
seriously about moral questions, about how one ought to live with
animals? In this monograph three philosophical approaches to the
animal question are examined. In terms of the first, the assumption
that the moral standing of animals is simply a conceptual problem
to be solved is variously challenged and an alternative viewpoint
promoted. In terms of the second, the generally accepted view
regarding the persuasiveness of Peter Singer's "Animal Liberation"
is called into question and an alternative canvassed, and in
relation to the third, the idea that such things as our
experiences, our literature and our poetry may do as much as if not
more than rational argument to change our moral views about animals
because they all 'change the way we see things' is further
developed.
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