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Books : Animals and Why They Matter
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Animals and Why They Matter by: Mary Midgley Vegetarian Books Price: £14.50 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 170 EAN: 9780820320410 ISBN: 0820320412 Label: University of Georgia Press Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 158 Publication Date: June 15, 2006 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Studio: University of Georgia Press Sales Rank: 207606 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Philosophizing about animalsMary Midgley examines the general principles that ought to guide our attitude to animals. Midgley quotes a large number of philosophers who in the past have philosophized about animals. Some of them have considered the question of what obligations, if any, we have towards animals. Their answers have depended both on what they take an animal to be and on what they consider to be the cause, the nature and the range of obligations. Descartes, for example, considered that, because animals lacked souls and, more importantly, reasoning faculties, they are mere machines. Even in Descartes' day, such a conclusion must have seemed very odd to anyone who had much to do with animals: for even if one agreed that they did lack souls and reasoning faculties, ... Read More: |
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