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Fellow Creatures
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Author : Christine M. Korsgaard
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-13
Fellow Creatures written by Christine M. Korsgaard and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-13 with Philosophy categories.
Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, she offers an explanation of why animals are the sorts of beings for whom things can be good or bad. She then turns to Kant's argument for the value of humanity to show that rationality commits us to claiming the standing of ends-in-ourselves, in two senses. Kant argued that as autonomous beings, we claim to be ends-in-ourselves when we claim the standing to make laws for ourselves and each other. Korsgaard argues that as beings who have a good, we also claim to be ends-in-ourselves when we take the things that are good for us to be good absolutely and so worthy of pursuit. The first claim commits us to joining with other autonomous beings in relations of moral reciprocity. The second claim commits us to treating the good of every sentient creature as something of absolute importance. Korsgaard argues that human beings are not more important than the other animals, that our moral nature does not make us superior to the other animals, and that our unique capacities do not make us better off than the other animals. She criticizes the "marginal cases" argument and advances a new view of moral standing as attaching to the atemporal subjects of lives. She criticizes Kant's own view that our duties to animals are indirect, and offers a non-utilitarian account of the relation between pleasure and the good. She also addresses a number of directly practical questions: whether we have the right to eat animals, experiment on them, make them work for us and fight in our wars, and keep them as pets; and how to understand the wrong that we do when we cause a species to go extinct.
A Letter From A Man To His Fellow Creatures Relating To Several Important Points Of Religion And Morality Shewing The Power We Have Over Our Own Thoughts And The Advantages Arising From A Proper Exercise Thereof
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Author : Man
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1745
A Letter From A Man To His Fellow Creatures Relating To Several Important Points Of Religion And Morality Shewing The Power We Have Over Our Own Thoughts And The Advantages Arising From A Proper Exercise Thereof written by Man and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1745 with Religion and ethics categories.
Fellow Creatures
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Author : Christine Marion Korsgaard
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
Fellow Creatures written by Christine Marion Korsgaard and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Philosophy categories.
Presents a compelling new view of our moral relationships to the other animals
Fellow Creatures
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Author : Christine M. Korsgaard
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-18
Fellow Creatures written by Christine M. Korsgaard and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-18 with Philosophy categories.
Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, she offers an explanation of why animals are the sorts of beings for whom things can be good or bad. She then turns to Kant's argument for the value of humanity to show that rationality commits us to claiming the standing of ends-in-ourselves, in two senses. Kant argued that as autonomous beings, we claim to be ends-in-ourselves when we claim the standing to make laws for ourselves and each other. Korsgaard argues that as beings who have a good, we also claim to be ends-in-ourselves when we take the things that are good for us to be good absolutely and so worthy of pursuit. The first claim commits us to joining with other autonomous beings in relations of moral reciprocity. The second claim commits us to treating the good of every sentient creature as something of absolute importance. Korsgaard argues that human beings are not more important than the other animals, that our moral nature does not make us superior to the other animals, and that our unique capacities do not make us better off than the other animals. She criticizes the "marginal cases" argument and advances a new view of moral standing as attaching to the atemporal subjects of lives. She criticizes Kant's own view that our duties to animals are indirect, and offers a non-utilitarian account of the relation between pleasure and the good. She also addresses a number of directly practical questions: whether we have the right to eat animals, experiment on them, make them work for us and fight in our wars, and keep them as pets; and how to understand the wrong that we do when we cause a species to go extinct.
My Fellow Creatures
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Author : Michael Rubenfeld
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
My Fellow Creatures written by Michael Rubenfeld and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Prisons categories.
Two men, each serving time for the same crime, are forced to question the nature of their desires when their pasts become their present. Venturing into dark and explosive territory, 'My Fellow Creatures' is a raw, honest and thoughtful portrayal of these men and their virtues, confronting the reader with difficult questions about love, consent, vengeance and acceptance.
Travels With Our Fellow Creatures
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Author : Various
language : en
Publisher: Perigee Trade
Release Date : 2000-10
Travels With Our Fellow Creatures written by Various and has been published by Perigee Trade this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10 with Fiction categories.
This masterful menagerie of prose and poetry--by a long list of contributors ranging from J.R. Ackerley to Walt Whitman--is sure to provoke tears, laughter, and much thought about those who walk, swim, and fly planet Earth with us.
Travels With Our Fellow Creatures
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Author : Phyllis Hobe
language : en
Publisher: Perigee Trade
Release Date : 1999
Travels With Our Fellow Creatures written by Phyllis Hobe and has been published by Perigee Trade this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Fiction categories.
Classic and contemporary writings explore bonds between mankind and animals, featuring a diverse group of talents, including John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway and others.
The Caxtons A Family Picture
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Author : Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton
language : en
Publisher: anboco
Release Date : 2016-09-05
The Caxtons A Family Picture written by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton and has been published by anboco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-05 with Fiction categories.
If it be the good fortune of this work to possess any interest for the Novel reader, that interest, perhaps, will be but little derived from the customary elements of fiction. The plot is extremely slight, the incidents are few, and with the exception of those which involve the fate of Vivian, such as may be found in the records of ordinary life. Regarded as a Novel, this attempt is an experiment somewhat apart from the previous works of the author. It is the first of his writings in which Humor has been employed, less for the purpose of satire than in illustration of amiable characters; it is the first, too, in which man has been viewed, less in his active relations with the world, than in his repose at his own hearth,—in a word, the greater part of the canvas has been devoted to the completion of a simple Family Picture. And thus, in any appeal to the sympathies of the human heart, the common household affections occupy the place of those livelier or larger passions which usually (and not unjustly) arrogate the foreground in Romantic composition. In the Hero whose autobiography connects the different characters and events of the work, it has been the Author's intention to imply the influences of Home upon the conduct and career of youth; and in the ambition which estranges Pisistratus for a time from the sedentary occupations in which the man of civilized life must usually serve his apprenticeship to Fortune or to Fame, it is not designed to describe the fever of Genius conscious of superior powers and aspiring to high destinies, but the natural tendencies of a fresh and buoyant mind, rather vigorous than contemplative, and in which the desire of action is but the symptom of health...
Life And Work
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Author : Church of Scotland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
Life And Work written by Church of Scotland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with Scotland categories.
Report Of The Meeting Of The British Association For The Advancement Of Science
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Author : British Association for the Advancement of Science
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
Report Of The Meeting Of The British Association For The Advancement Of Science written by British Association for the Advancement of Science and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with Science categories.