Ethics And Animals (contemporary Issues In Biomedicine, Ethics, And Society)

This volume is a collection of essays concerned with the morality of hu­ man treatment of nonhuman animals. The contributors take very different approaches to their topics and come to widely divergent conclusions. The goal of the volume as a whole is to shed a brighter light upon an aspect of human life-our relations with the other animals-that has recently seen a great increase in interest and in the generation of heat. The discussions and debates contained herein are addressed by the contributors to each other, to the general public, and to the academic world, especially the biological, philosophical, and political parts of that world. The essays are organized into eight sections by topics, each sec­ tion beginning with a brief introduction linking the papers and the sec­ tions to one another. There is also a general introduction and an Epilog that suggests alternate possible ways of organizing the material. The first two sections are concerned with the place of animals in the human world: Section I with the ways humans view animals in literature, philosophy, and other parts of human culture, and Section II with the place of animals in human legal and moral community. The next three sections concern comparisons between human and nonhuman animals: Section III on the rights and wrongs of killing, Section IV on the humanity of animals and the animality of humans, and Section V on questions of the conflict of human and animal interests. Front Matter....Pages i-xii ‘Platonists’ and ‘Aristotelians’....Pages 1-14 Front Matter....Pages 15-18 Animal Rights, Human Wrongs....Pages 19-43 Animal Rights Revisited....Pages 45-59 Knowing Our Place in the Animal World....Pages 61-77 The Clouded Mirror....Pages 79-90 Front Matter....Pages 91-93 Moral Community and Moral Order....Pages 95-102 The Legal and Moral Bases of Animal Rights....Pages 103-118 Front Matter....Pages 119-122 Life, Death, and Animals....Pages 123-133 Killing Persons and Other Beings....Pages 135-146 Interspecific Justice and Animal Slaughter....Pages 147-162 Front Matter....Pages 163-167 Humans, Animals, and ‘Animal Behavior’....Pages 169-182 Ecology, Morality, and Hunting....Pages 183-197 Humans as Hunting Animals....Pages 199-205 Apes and Language Research....Pages 207-217 Front Matter....Pages 219-223 The Priority of Human Interests....Pages 225-242 Comments on “The Priority of Human Interests”....Pages 243-249 The Case Against Raising And Killing Animals For Food....Pages 251-265 Postscript....Pages 267-270 Front Matter....Pages 271-274 Do Animals Have a Right to Life?....Pages 275-284 On Why We Would Do Better To Jettison Moral Rights....Pages 285-301 Front Matter....Pages 303-306 Philosophy, Ecology, Animal Welfare, and the ‘Rights’ Question....Pages 307-315 Deciding What to Kill....Pages 317-322 Front Matter....Pages 323-327 Chicken—Environment Interactions....Pages 329-337 Against a Scientific Justification of Animal Experiments....Pages 339-359 “Animal Liberation” as Crime The Hawaii Dolphin Case....Pages 361-371 Fighting for Animal Rights....Pages 373-377 Epilog....Pages 379-380 Back Matter....Pages 381-400