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A new basis for animal ethics : telos and common sense / Bernard E. Rollin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resource (210 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826273666
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV4708 .N493 2016
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Contents:
Part One. Creating an animal ethic. The need for a new animal ethic ; Social, personal, and professional ethics ; Reminding versus teaching ; The denial of animal mind ; Mattering and telos -- Part Two. Ideology and common sense. Ideology ; Anecdote, anthropomorphism, and animal mind ; Animal telos and animal welfare ; The end of husbandry ; Animal research and telos ; Genetic engineering and telos ; Conclusion.
Subject: This book, the culmination of forty years of theorizing about the moral status of animals, explicates and justifies society's moral obligation to animals in terms of the commonsense metaphysics and ethics of Aristotle's concept of telos.
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Introduction: Philosophy and ethics -- Part One. Creating an animal ethic. The need for a new animal ethic ; Social, personal, and professional ethics ; Reminding versus teaching ; The denial of animal mind ; Mattering and telos -- Part Two. Ideology and common sense. Ideology ; Anecdote, anthropomorphism, and animal mind ; Animal telos and animal welfare ; The end of husbandry ; Animal research and telos ; Genetic engineering and telos ; Conclusion.

This book, the culmination of forty years of theorizing about the moral status of animals, explicates and justifies society's moral obligation to animals in terms of the commonsense metaphysics and ethics of Aristotle's concept of telos.

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