Interspecies Ethics

Interspecies Ethics
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9780231538145
ISBN-13 : 0231538146
Rating : 4/5 (146 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Interspecies Ethics by : Cynthia Willett

Download or read book Interspecies Ethics written by Cynthia Willett and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interspecies Ethics explores animals' vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species. The social bonds diverse animals form provide a remarkable model for communitarian justice and cosmopolitan peace, challenging the human exceptionalism that drives modern moral theory. Situating biosocial ethics firmly within coevolutionary processes, this volume has profound implications for work in social and political thought, contemporary pragmatism, Africana thought, and continental philosophy. Interspecies Ethics develops a communitarian model for multispecies ethics, rebalancing the overemphasis on competition in the original Darwinian paradigm by drawing out and stressing the cooperationist aspects of evolutionary theory through mutual aid. The book's ethical vision offers an alternative to utilitarian, deontological, and virtue ethics, building its argument through rich anecdotes and clear explanations of recent scientific discoveries regarding animals and their agency. Geared toward a general as well as a philosophical audience, the text illuminates a variety of theories and contrasting approaches, tracing the contours of a postmoral ethics.


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