Fellow creatures : our obligations to the other animals / Christine M. Korsgaard.

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Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of our moral relationships to the other animals. She offers challenging answers to such questions as: Are people superior to animals, and does it matter morally if we are? Is it all right for us to eat animals, experiment on them, make them work...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Uehiro series in practical ethics.
Main Author: Korsgaard, Christine M. (Christine Marion) (Author)
Language:English
Published: [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Uehiro series in practical ethics.
Subjects:
Animal welfare > Moral and ethical aspects.
Human-animal relationships.
Physical Description:xiii, 252 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part I : Human beings and other animals
  • 1. Are people more important than other animals?
  • 2. Animal selves and the good
  • 3. What's different about being human?
  • 4. The case against human superiority
  • Part II : Immanuel Kant and the animals
  • 5. Kant, marginal cases, and moral standing
  • 6. Kant against the animals, part 1
  • 7. Kant against the animals, part 2
  • 8. A Kantian case for our obligations to the other animals
  • 9. The role of pleasure and pain
  • Part III : Consequences
  • 10. The animal antinomy, part 1
  • 11. Species, communities, and habitat loss
  • 12. The animal antinomy, part 2.