MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH, Third Edition, is a collection of original essays by leading philosophers devoted to the major moral issues of the day, including abortion, euthanasia, the death penalty, famine, war, suicide, the environment, and animal rights.

Matters of Life and Death

Politics & Social Sciences

Rachels,James

Regan,Tom

Beauchamp,Thomas

Callicott,J. Baird

Bedau,Hugo Adam

Levenbook,Barbara

Philosophy

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Collection of historical, theoretical and applied articles on the ethical considerations in the treatment of animals by human beings.

Animal rights and human obligations

Singer, Peter (editors)

Prentice-Hall.Inc.

Along with Peter Singer, Tom Regan (philosophy, North Carolina State U.) is co-premier of animal rights philosophy, a reputation established with The Case for Animal Rights (1985). This volume of shorter pieces reflects Regan's thinking over the past decade. Besides chapters on the meaning and repercussions of animal rights and animal liberation, two chapters address being an employee of an organization that experiments or uses animals (Regan's employer, he says, yearly kills thousands of animals). Two other chapters compare animal rights to, on the one hand, the causes for gay and lesbian rights, and on the other, the rights of African/American slaves. Regan's central thesis can be summed up as anti-utilitarian and Kantian, and is opposed to those (like Singer) wanting animal liberation without necessarily advocating rights. Regan argues that because non-human animals are similar to humans (both, for example, believe, remember, intend, and experience fear, anger, and loneliness), the two groups have a "basic moral right to respectful treatment." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Defending Animal Rights

University of Illinois Press

More than a contest of wills representing professional and economic interests, the animal rights debate is also an enduring topic in normative ethical theory. 'Defending Animal Rights' addresses the key isues in this sometimes acrimonious debate.

Essays discuss vegetarianism, animal experimentation, whaling, the legal rights of animals, and the philosophical arguments for establishing a moral relationship with our environment

All That Dwell Therein

Univ. Of California Pr.

Examines the philosophical aspects of the treatment of animals and argues that animals have a basic moral right to respectful treatment

The Case for Animal Rights

University of California Press

More than twenty years after its original publication, The Case for Animal Rights is an acknowledged classic of moral philosophy, and its author is recognized as the intellectual leader of the animal rights movement. In a new and fully considered preface, Regan responds to his critics and defends the book's revolutionary position.

Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology, and Animal Life (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Animal Others brings together original contributions that explore the status of animals from the continental philosophy perspective. Examined are the moral status of animals, the question of animal minds, an understanding of what it is to be an animal and what it is to be with an animal, as well as the roles animals play in the work of philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Derrida. Those already immersed in continental philosophy will find the subject matter of the animal to be a new interest and a promising new venture. Analytic philosophers and other academics will be rewarded by a different approach to old questions, while the general reader interested in animal rights issues will discover new arguments to back up their positions and fresh challenges which may question long-held beliefs.

Steeves, H. Peter

State University of New York Press

Essays raise and discuss moral questions concerning euthanasia, suicide, war, capital punishment, abortion, famine relief, and the environment

Temple Univ Pr

Light wear to dust jacket and a previous owner's catalogue number in pencil on the front endpaper. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

G E Moore Early Essays

Temple University Press

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Matters of Life and Death

Animal rights and human obligations

Defending Animal Rights

Defending Animal Rights

All That Dwell Therein

The Case for Animal Rights

The Case for Animal Rights

Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology, and Animal Life (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Matters of Life and Death

G E Moore Early Essays