Magpies, Monkeys, and Morals
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (778 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1551112027 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Rhys McKinnon said The Consumate Review of the Animal Rights Issues/Arguments. It's fairly rare to find books that can take you from little to no knowledge in a given area of debate, and then put you in a position to jump in to it right away; this book does that. It's the kind of book that is accessible enough and certainly thorough enough to serve as a defining text for the issue. Also, it's just recently been updated, actually.
. Angue Taylor teaches philosophy at the University of Victoria in British Columbia
Frey, and Peter Carruthers.. He traces the background of these debates from Aristotle to Darwin, and he provides fair-minded commentaries on the positions of such influential contemporary philosophers as Peter Singer, Tom Regan, R.G. To what extent can animals be regarded as part of the moral community? To what extent, if at all, do they have moral rights? Are we wrong to eat them or to hunt them? Is the use of animals for scientific research justified? And can the ideas behind animal liberation
"places the reader at the leading edge of all the major contemporary controversies over the human use and exploitation of animals." -- Michael Allen Fox, Queen's University