Authors: Stephen R. Clark
ISBN-13: 9780415135603, ISBN-10: 0415135605
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: April 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
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.
Acknowledgements | ||
1 | Introduction | 1 |
2 | How to Calculate the Greater Good (1978) | 9 |
3 | The Rights of Wild Things (1979) | 16 |
4 | Awareness and Self-Awareness (1981) | 31 |
5 | Humans, Animals and 'Animal Behaviour' (1983) | 42 |
6 | Hume, Animals and the Objectivity of Morals (1985) | 55 |
7 | Animals, Ecosystems and the Liberal Ethic (1987) | 70 |
8 | The Description and Evaluation of Animal Emotion (1987) | 87 |
9 | Utility, Rights and the Domestic Virtues (1988) | 97 |
10 | Ethical Problems in Animal Welfare (1989) | 97 |
11 | The Reality of Shared Emotion (1990) | 121 |
12 | The Consciousness of Animals (1991) | 139 |
13 | Modern Errors, Ancient Virtues (1994) | 154 |
Stephen R. L. Clark: Publications | 169 | |
Notes | 175 | |
Bibliography | 183 | |
Index | 190 |