03285nam 2200577 450 991079826980332120170919025314.01-4985-3191-1(CKB)3710000000610782(EBL)4427230(SSID)ssj0001624673(PQKBManifestationID)16359724(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001624673(PQKBWorkID)14848767(PQKB)10555840(PQKBManifestationID)16237300(PQKBWorkID)14848955(PQKB)24265336(MiAaPQ)EBC4427230(EXLCZ)99371000000061078220151127h20162016 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe moral rights of animals /edited by Gary Lynn Comstock, Mylan Engel JrLanham :Lexington Books,[2016]©20161 online resource (328 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4985-3192-X 1-4985-3190-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Preface; Introduction; The Moral Rights of Animals; Part I: Theoretical Prospects and Challenges for Animal Rights; Chapter One: The Case for Animal Rights; Chapter Two: Animal Rights for Libertarians; Chapter Three: Do Animals Have Rights and Does It Matter If They Don't?; Chapter Four: Tom Regan on "Kind" Arguments against Animal Rights and for Human Rights; Chapter Five: Equality, Flourishing, and the Problem of Predation; Part II: Animal Rights and the Comparative Value of Lives; Chapter Six: Do All Subjects of a Life Have an Equal Right to Life?Chapter Seven: The Interspecies Killing ProblemChapter Eight: Respecting Rights-Holders; Chapter Nine: Subjects-of-a-Life, the Argument from Risk, and the Significance of Self-Consciousness; Chapter Ten: La Mettrie's Objection; Part III: Animal Rights in Practice; Chapter Eleven: Rights and Capabilities; Chapter Twelve: Vegetarianism in the Balance; Chapter Thirteen: The Benefit of Regan's Doubt; Chapter Fourteen: A Moral License to Kill?; Epilogue; Index; About the Editors and ContributorsThis book explores whether or not animals have moral rights through a number of different lenses, including classical deontology, libertarianism, commonsense morality, virtue ethics, and utilitarianism, while also addressing the challenges to the strong animal rights position posed by rights nihilism, the ""kind"" argument against animal rights, the problem of predation, and the comparative value of lives. This book also explores the practical import of animal rights from both a personal and social policy standpoint.Animal rightsMoral and ethical aspectsAnimal welfareMoral and ethical aspectsAnimal rightsMoral and ethical aspects.Animal welfareMoral and ethical aspects.179/.3Comstock Gary1954-Engel MylanJr.,MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798269803321The moral rights of animals3787476UNINA