What We Owe to Nonhuman Animals The Historical Pretensions of Reason and the Ideal of Felt Kinship
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2023
/ Engelsk
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9781032545844
Publisert
2023-09-27
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Routledge
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544 gr
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234 mm
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156 mm
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U, 05
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Engelsk
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270
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Biographical note
Gary Steiner is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Bucknell University.
This book strongly challenges the Western philosophical tradition’s assertion that humans are superior to nonhuman animals. It makes a case for the full and direct moral status of nonhuman animals. The book provides the basis for a radical critique of the entire trajectory of animal studies over the past fifteen years. The key idea explored is that of ‘felt kinship’—a sense of shared fate with and obligations to all sentient life. It will help to inspire some deep rethinking on the part of leading exponents of animal studies. The book’s strong outlook is expressed through an appeal for radical humility on the side of humans rather than a constant reference to the ‘human-animal divide’. Historical figures examined in depth include Aristotle, Seneca, and Kant; contemporary figures examined include Christine Korsgaard and Martha Nussbaum. This book presents an account according to which the tradition has not proceeded on the basis of impartial motivations at all, but instead has made a set of pointedly self-serving assumptions about the proper criteria for assessing moral worth. Readers of this book will gain exposure to a wide variety of thinkers in the Western philosophical tradition, historical as well as contemporary. This book is suitable for professionals working in nonhuman animal studies, students, advanced undergraduates, and practitioners working in the fields of philosophy, environmental studies, law, literature, anthropology, and related fields.
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This book strongly challenges the Western philosophical tradition's assertion that humans are superior to nonhuman animals. It provides a full and direct moral status of nonhuman animals.
IntroductionChapter One: Background Ideals of Living1. A Counterintuitive Idea2. Background Ideals of Living in the Philosophical Tradition3. Anthropocentric Implications of Some Contemporary Approaches 4. Anthropocentric and Non-Anthropocentric Background Ideals of LivingChapter Two: The Essential Role and Pitfalls of Reason in Moral Judgment1. Background Ideals of Living and Our Basic Understanding of Reason2. Two Early Exponents of Anthropocentric Rationality: Aristotle and Seneca 3. The Enlightenment's Chief Exponent of Anthropocentric Rationality: Kant 4. Questioning the Traditional Commitment to the Primacy of ReasonChapter Three: Historical Idealism and the Process of Critical Reflection1. Rationality: Rethink or Reject? 2. Rorty's Challenge to Reason and Criteria 3. The Ideal of Critical Detachment Revisited 4. Ortega's Turn to Historical Reason 5. Miller's Actualism and the Problem of Universals 6. A Concluding ThoughtChapter Four: The Affective Dimension of Moral Commitment1. Background Ideals of Living and the Putative Autonomy of Reason2. A Positive Path Beyond the Limits of Reason?3. Reclaiming a Guiding Place for the Emotions 4. Pre-Predicative Meaning and Affective Engagement 5. The Moral Community is Neither Exclusively Nor Primarily Human Chapter Five: Felt Kinship: The Essential Tension Between Local and Global Commitments1. The Power and Essential Limits of Reason 2. The Power and Essential Limits of Feeling or Emotion 3. Toward a Dialectical Conception of the Reason-Emotion Dichotomy 4. Toward a Well-Tempered HumanismBibliography
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781032545844
Publisert
2023-09-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
544 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
270
Forfatter
Biographical note
Gary Steiner is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Bucknell University.