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Animal Lives Matter: The Quest for Justice and Rights

Animal Lives Matter: The Quest for Justice and Rights

Name: Animal Lives Matter: The Quest for Justice and Rights
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9781032700847
Price: 479.05 HKD
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Author: Raymond Wacks
ISBN: 9781032700847

By Raymond Wacks

Routledge February 2024

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ISBN-13: 9781032700847
Publisher: Routledge
Publication: February 2024
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Animal Lives Matter provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal, philosophical, and ethical aspects of animal rights. It argues that the subject extends beyond the matter of our obligations toward animals, to include our wider responsibilities for protecting the environment. Drawing on numerous moral, political, legal, religious, and philosophical theories including utilitarianism, deontology, rights theory, social contractarianism and the capabilities approach, the author meticulously examines the questions of sentience, speciesism, personhood, and human exceptionalism. Lucid, nuanced and academically rigorous, this important book will be an essential resource for scholars of law, politics, philosophy, ethics, as well as policy makers and the general reader.

1. Introduction

2. Ethical foundations

3. Animal rights

4. Rights resistance

5. Human rights

6. Utilitarianism vs deontology

7. Welfarism

8. Abolitionism

9. Capabilities

10. Contractarianism and contractualism

11. Citizenship

12. The law