Animal rights : a historical anthology

Linzey, Andrew. (Added Author). Clarke, Paul A. B., 1946- (Added Author).

Summary: This comprehensive and diverse anthology, the only one of its kind, illuminates the complex evolution of moral thought regarding animals and includes writings from ancient Greece to the present. Animal Rights reveals the ways in which a variety of thinkers have addressed such issues as our ethical responsibilities for the welfare of animals, whether animals have rights, and what it means to be human.

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ISBN: 0231508727
ISBN: 9780231508728
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxi, 193 pages)
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Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Reprint. Originally published: Political theory and animal rights. London ; Winchester, Mass. : Pluto Press, ©1990. With new pref. 21. All Animals are Equal PETER SINGER.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	9. Duties to Animals are Indirect IMMANUEL KANT10. Animals are Not Constitutional Persons JAMES MADISON; 11. The Inalienable Rights of Animals HERMAN DAGGETT; 12. All Nature Suffers WILLIAM GODWIN; 13. Limits to the Rights over Animals ARTUR SCHOPENHAUER; 14. Duty to Minimize Suffering JEREMY BENTHAM; 15. Duties to Animals are Direct JOHN STUART MILL; 16. The Principle of Animal Rights HENRY S. SALT; 17. Pity for Animals FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE; 18. Duties to Life ALBERT SCHWEITZER; 19. Outside the Scope of the Theory of Justice JOHN RAWLS; 20. The Rights of Animals BRIGID BROPHY.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.