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Fellow creatures : our obligations to the other animals / Christine M. Korsgaard

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Korsgaard, Christine M. (Christine Marion)
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
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First edition.
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Human Beings and the Other Animals -- 1.Are People More Important than the Other Animals? -- 1.1.Introduction -- 1.2.Reasons to Treat People and Animals Differently -- 1.3.Tethered Values -- 1.4.Why Tethered Values and Superior Importance Are (Almost) Incompatible -- 2.Animal Selves and the Good -- 2.1.The Origin of the Good -- 2.2.Objections -- 2.3.Self-Consciousness and the Self -- 2.4.Active and Passive Self-Constitution -- 3.What's Different about Being Human? -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.Rational and Instinctive Minds -- 3.3.Evaluating Reasons and Evaluating the Self -- 3.4.Species Being -- 3.5.Ethics and Science -- 4.The Case against Human Superiority -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.Does Morality Make Humans Superior to the Other Animals? -- 4.3.The Implications of Cognitive Sophistication -- 4.4.Are Humans Better Off than the Other Animals? -- 4.5.Conclusion -- pt. II Immanuel Kant and the Animals -- 5.Kant, Marginal Cases, and Moral Standing -- 5.1.Human Beings as Ends in Themselves -- 5.2.Against the Argument from Marginal Cases -- 5.3.Atemporal Creatures -- 5.4.What Is Moral Standing Anyway? -- 6.Kant against the Animals, Part 1: The Indirect Duty View -- 6.1.Animals as Mere Means -- 6.2.How Kant Thinks We Ought to Treat Animals -- 6.3.An Incoherent Attitude -- 6.4.The Problem of the Moral Filter -- 6.5.Desert and the Worthiness to Be Happy -- 6.6.Treated Like Animals -- 7.Kant against the Animals, Part 2: Reciprocity and the Grounds of Obligation -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.Reciprocity Arguments -- 7.3.Kant's Account of Moral Choice -- 7.4.Kant on Reciprocal Legislation -- 7.5.The Universalization Test and the Treatment of Animals -- 8.A Kantian Case for Our Obligations to the Other Animals -- 8.1.Introduction -- 8.2.Kant's Copernican Revolution -- 8.3.The Concept of an End in Itself -- 8.4.Valuing Ourselves as Ends in Ourselves -- 8.5.Valuing Animals as Ends in Themselves -- 8.6.Morality as Our Way of Being Animals -- 8.7.Different Moral Relations to People and Animals -- 8.8.Trouble in the Kingdom of Ends -- 9.The Role of Pleasure and Pain -- 9.1.Rapprochement with Utilitarianism? -- 9.2.Aggregation and Its Implications -- 9.3.The Nature of Pleasure and Pain -- 9.4.The Place of Pleasure and Pain in the Final Good -- 9.5.Matters of Life and Death -- 9.6.Kantian Naturalism -- pt. III Consequences -- 10.The Animal Antinomy, Part 1: Creation Ethics -- 10.1.Eliminating Predation -- 10.2.Abolitionism -- 10.3.The Animal Antinomy -- 10.4.Creation Ethics -- 10.5.Individuals, Groups, and Species -- 11.Species, Communities, and Habitat Loss -- 11.1.The Value of Species -- 11.2.The Good of a Species and the Good of Its Members -- 11.3.What Is a Species? -- 11.4.Does a Species Have a Good? -- 11.5.Species as Generic Organisms -- 11.6.How to Care about Species -- 11.7.Eliminating Predation Again -- 11.8.Restoring Habitat -- 11.9.Should Humans Go Extinct? -- 12.The Animal Antinomy, Part 2: Abolition and Apartheid -- 12.1.Reorganizing Nature -- 12.2.How to Treat Animals as Ends in Themselves -- 12.3.Eating Animals -- 12.4.Working Animals and Animals in the Military -- 12.5.The Use of Animals in Scientific Experiments -- 12.6.Companion Animals.
Summary
Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of our moral relationships to the other animals. She offers challenging answers to such questions as: Are people superior to animals, and does it matter morally if we are? Is it all right for us to eat animals, experiment on them, make them work for us, and keep them as pets?
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ISBN
9780191815416 (ebook)
Audience Notes
Specialized.
Note
This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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