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Authors: Stephen R. Clark
ISBN-13: 9780415135603, ISBN-10: 0415135605
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: April 1997
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Stephen R. Clark

Book Synopsis

In recent years, the efforts of philosophers, scientists and activists to raise public awareness of the treatment of animals has laid the foundation for an enormous change in human practice. Animals and Their Moral Standing traces the development of "animal rights" through many of the writings of Stephen R.L. Clark brought together here for the first time. Animals and Their Moral Standing will be essential reading for every person concerned by the debates over animal rights and their treatment.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
1Introduction1
2How to Calculate the Greater Good (1978)9
3The Rights of Wild Things (1979)16
4Awareness and Self-Awareness (1981)31
5Humans, Animals and 'Animal Behaviour' (1983)42
6Hume, Animals and the Objectivity of Morals (1985)55
7Animals, Ecosystems and the Liberal Ethic (1987)70
8The Description and Evaluation of Animal Emotion (1987)87
9Utility, Rights and the Domestic Virtues (1988)97
10Ethical Problems in Animal Welfare (1989)97
11The Reality of Shared Emotion (1990)121
12The Consciousness of Animals (1991)139
13Modern Errors, Ancient Virtues (1994)154
Stephen R. L. Clark: Publications169
Notes175
Bibliography183
Index190

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