Beyond Prejudice : The Moral Significance of Human and Nonhuman Animals /
Autor principal: | |
---|---|
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Durham :
Duke University Press,
1995.
|
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword by Bernard E. Rollin
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Human ""Superiority"" and the Argument from Marginal Cases
- Candidates for Inclusion in the Moral Community
- Frequently Held Views on Who Counts Morally: Homocentrism
- Frequently Held Views on Who Counts Morally: The Full-Personhood View
- The Argument from Marginal Cases: Two Versions
- Chapter 2. Responses to the Argument from Marginal Cases
- Failure to Address the Issue
- Unsuccessful Attacks on the Argument from Marginal Cases
- The Scope of the Argument from Marginal Cases
- The Final Response.
- Chapter 3. Speciesism and Full Personhood
- The Speciesism Debate: A Brief History
- Attempts to Show That Membership in a Species Characterized by Full Personhood Is a Morally Relevant Characteristic
- Attempts to Show That Speciesism Is Justified Even if Species Membership Is Not a Morally Relevant Characteristic
- Implications of the Failure to Justify Speciesism
- Chapter 4. Utilitarianism and the Protection of Innocent Life
- Utilitarianism and the Full-Personhood View
- Utilitarianism and the Charge of Inadequate Individual Protection.
- Utilitarian Attempts to Reject the Replaceability Argument
- Rejection of the Extended Prior-Existence View
- Preference Utilitarianism and Replaceability
- Return to the Case of the Wretched Child
- Total-View Utilitarianism and Moral Rights
- Chapter 5. Justification and Judgment: Claiming and Respecting Basic Moral Rights
- Attempts to Provide Justification for the Moral Considerability and Significance of Beings Who Are Not Full Persons
- Justifying the Rights View
- Respecting Basic Moral Rights: Obligations and Conflicts
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.