Animal rights and human obligations /
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Other Authors: Regan, Tom, Singer, Peter, 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1989.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1, Animals in the history of Western thought
  • Bible ; Selections
  • Animals and slavery / Aristotle
  • Differences between rational and other creatures ; On killing living things and the duty to love irrational creatures / Saint Thomas Aquinas
  • Animals are machines / Rene Descartes
  • A reply to Descartes / Voltaire
  • Duties in regard to animals / Immanuel Kant
  • A utilitarian view / Jeremy Bentham
  • Comparison of the mental powers of man and the lower animals / Charles Darwin
  • The ethic of reverence for life / Albert Schweitzer
  • pt. 2, The nature of humans and other animals
  • Why animals lack belief and desires / R.G. Frey
  • Thought without language / Bernard Rollin
  • Ethology and animal minds / Donald R. Griffin
  • Animal pain / Bernard Rollin
  • Language acquisition in nonhuman primates / Erik Eckholm
  • pt. 3, Equal consideration for animals
  • All animals are equal / Peter Singer
  • The priority of human interests / Lawrence C. Becker
  • Darwin, species, and morality / James Rachels
  • pt. 4, Animal rights
  • The case for animal rights / Tom Regan
  • The case against animal rights / R.G. Frey
  • Why animals cannot have rights / Alan White
  • Why animals have a right to liberty / James Rachels
  • Animals have no rights / Catholic dictionary
  • The theos-rights of animals / Andrew Linzey
  • pt. 5, Killing and the value of life
  • Life, death, and animals / Edward Johnson
  • Why death does not harm animals / Ruth Cigman
  • Why death does harm animals / Tom Regan
  • pt. 6, The treatment of farm animals
  • Down on the factory farm / Peter Singer
  • The case for intensive farming of food animals / Stanley E. Curtis
  • The case against raising and killing animals for food / Bart Gruzalski
  • A defense of meat eating / Jan Narveson
  • pt. 7, The treatment of animals in science
  • The use of animals in science / Sidney Gendin
  • The case for unrestricted research using animals / C.R. Gallistel
  • The case for restricting research using animals / Mary Midgley
  • Vivisection, morals, and medicine : an exchange / R.G. Frey and Sir William Paton
  • pt. 8, The treatment of wildlife
  • Extinction / Paul and Anne Ehrlich
  • The value of species / Holmes Rolston, III
  • Nature and feminist sensitivity / Marti Kheel
  • Why does species matter? / Lily, -Marlene Russow
  • pt. 9, Epilogue
  • The limits of Trooghaft / Desmond Stewart.