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Author | : Alasdair Cochrane |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2018-11-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0192507036 |
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There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications. Indeed, most are in agreement that animal sentience ought to constrain the actions of political institutions, limiting the harms that can be perpetrated against animals. The primary aim of this book is to show that the political implications of animal sentience go even further than this. For this book argues that sentience establishes a moral equality and a shared set of rights amongst those creatures who possess it. Crucially, this worth and these rights create a duty on moral agents to establish and maintain a political order dedicated to their interests. This book is devoted to sketching what this 'sentientist politics' might look like. It argues in favour of a ' sentientist cosmopolitan democracy': a global political system made up of overlapping local, national, regional and global communities comprised of human and non-human members who exist within shared 'communities of fate'. Furthermore, the institutions of those communities should be democratic - that is to say, participative, deliberative and representative. Finally, those institutions should include dedicated representatives of non-human animals whose job should be to translate the interests of animals into deliberations over what is in the public good for their communities.
Author | : Alasdair Cochrane |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2018-10-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198789807 |
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There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications. Indeed, most are in agreement that animal sentience ought to constrain the actions of political institutions, limiting the harms that can be perpetrated against animals. The primary aim of this book is to show that the political implications of animal sentience go even further than this. For this book argues that sentience establishes a moral equality and a shared set of rights amongst those creatures who possess it. Crucially, this worth and these rights create a duty on moral agents to establish and maintain a political order dedicated to their interests. This book is devoted to sketching what this 'sentientist politics' might look like. It argues in favour of a ' sentientist cosmopolitan democracy': a global political system made up of overlapping local, national, regional and global communities comprised of human and non-human members who exist within shared 'communities of fate'. Furthermore, the institutions of those communities should be democratic - that is to say, participative, deliberative and representative. Finally, those institutions should include dedicated representatives of non-human animals whose job should be to translate the interests of animals into deliberations over what is in the public good for their communities.
Author | : Robert Garner |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2016-09-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1783487267 |
Download The Political Turn in Animal Ethics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This edited collection of original essays focuses on the political dimension of the debate about our treatment of nonhuman animals.
Author | : Clare Palmer |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2010-09-23 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0231503024 |
Download Animal Ethics in Context Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
It is widely agreed that because animals feel pain we should not make them suffer gratuitously. Some ethical theories go even further: because of the capacities that they possess, animals have the right not to be harmed or killed. These views concern what not to do to animals, but we also face questions about when we should, and should not, assist animals that are hungry or distressed. Should we feed a starving stray kitten? And if so, does this commit us, if we are to be consistent, to feeding wild animals during a hard winter? In this controversial book, Clare Palmer advances a theory that claims, with respect to assisting animals, that what is owed to one is not necessarily owed to all, even if animals share similar psychological capacities. Context, history, and relation can be critical ethical factors. If animals live independently in the wild, their fate is not any of our moral business. Yet if humans create dependent animals, or destroy their habitats, we may have a responsibility to assist them. Such arguments are familiar in human cases-we think that parents have special obligations to their children, for example, or that some groups owe reparations to others. Palmer develops such relational concerns in the context of wild animals, domesticated animals, and urban scavengers, arguing that different contexts can create different moral relationships.
Author | : Mayumi Itoh |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2018-03-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3319707574 |
Download Animals and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is the first comprehensive, in-depth English language study of the animals that were left behind in the exclusion zone in the wake of the nuclear meltdown of three of the four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in March 2011, triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake of magnitude 9.0.The Japanese government designated an area of 20-kilometer radius from the nuclear power station as an exclusion zone and evacuated one hundred thousand residents, but left companion animals and livestock animals behind in the radioactive area. Consequently, about 90 percent of the animals in the exclusion zone died. This book juxtaposes policies of the Japanese government toward the animals in Fukushima with the actions of grassroots volunteer animal rescue groups that filled the void of the government.
Author | : Nikolay Koposov |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108419720 |
Download Memory Laws, Memory Wars Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A major contribution to our understanding of present-day historical consciousness through a study of memory laws across Europe.
Author | : Peter Singer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1983 |
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Download The Expanding Circle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Sally J. Scholz |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0271047216 |
Download Political Solidarity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Sue Donaldson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2011-11-24 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0199599661 |
Download Zoopolis Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
To all of these animals we owe respect for their basic inviolable rights.
Author | : Charlotte E. Blattner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2019-12 |
Genre | : Animal welfare |
ISBN | : 0198846193 |
Download Animal Labour Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Is animal labour inherently oppressive, or can work be a source of meaning, solidarity, and social membership for animals? This challenging question drives this thought-provoking collection which explores the possibilities and complexities of animal labour as a site for interspecies justice.The book assembles an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars who carefully grapple with the many facets, implications, and entanglements of animal labour, and who, crucially, place animals at the heart of their analyses. Can animals engage in good work and have humane jobs? What kindsof labour rights are appropriate for animal workers? Can animals consent to work? Would recognizing animals as workers improve their legal and political status, or simply reinforce the perception that they are beasts of burden? Can a focus on labour help to create or deepen bonds between animaladvocates and other social justice movements? While the authors present a range of views on these questions, their contributions make clear that labour must be taken seriously by everyone interested in more just and ethical multispecies futures.