Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions by Cass R. Sunstein
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Animal Rights
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Contributors to this volume explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Ethical questions on ownership, protection against suffering and the ability of animals to make their own choices free from human control are thought-provokingly examined.
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION: WHAT ARE ANIMAL RIGHTS?; PART I: CURRENT DEBATES; 1. Animal Rights, One Step at a Time; 2. Animal Rights: Legal, Philosophical and Pragmatic Perspectives; 3. Ethics Beyond Species and Beyond Instincts: A Reply to Richard Posner; 4. Eating Meat and Eating People; 5. Taking Animal Interests Seriously; 6. Animals as Objects, or Subjects, of Rights; 7. Drawing Lines; 8. All Animals are Not Equal: The Interface Between Scientific Knowledge and Legislation for Animal Rights; PART II: NEW DIRECTIONS; 9. Foxes in the Hen House: Animals, Agribusiness and the Law; 10. A New Property Status for Animals: Equitable Self-Ownership; 11. Can Animals Sue?; 12. Of Mice and Men: A Feminist Fragment on Animal Rights; 13. Animal Rights and the Values of Nonhuman Life; 14. Beyond Compassion and Humanity: Justice for Non-Human Animals
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CIN0195152174G
9780195152173
0195152174
Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions by Cass R. Sunstein
Used - Good
Hardback
Oxford University Press Inc
20040401
350
N/A
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