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Record Nr.

UNINA9910420929403321

Autore

Zuolo Federico

Titolo

Animals, Political Liberalism and Public Reason / / by Federico Zuolo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-49509-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

179.3

100

Soggetti

Ethics

Political philosophy

Epistemology

Animal welfare

Political Philosophy

Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Animal Treatment as a Matter of Reasonable Disagreement -- Chapter 3. Public Justification and the Disagreement on Animals -- Chapter 4. Views on the Moral Status of Animals -- Chapter 5. Applying Public Justification: Interests, Principles, and Competing Reasons -- Chapter 6. Addressing Unlawfulness: Admissible and Non-Admissible Forms of Protest -- Chapter 7. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the problem of disagreement concerning the treatment of animals in a liberal society. Current laws include an unprecedented concern for animal welfare, yet disagreement remains pervasive. This issue has so far been neglected both in political philosophy and animal ethics. Although starting from disagreement has been the hallmark of many politically liberal theories, none have been devoted to the treatment of animals, and conversely, most theories in animal ethics do not take the disagreement on this issue seriously. Bridging this divide with a change of perspective, Zuolo argues that we should begin from the disagreement on the moral status of animals



and the treatment we owe them. Reconstructing the epistemic nature of disagreement about animals, Zuolo proposes a novel form of public justification to find principles acceptable to all. By setting out a unified framework which honours the liberal principles of respect for diversity, a robust liberal political theory capable of dealing with diverse forms of disagreement, and even some forms of radical dissent, is achieved.