The Moral Rights of Animals

The Moral Rights of Animals

by Gary Lynn Comstock (Editor), Mylan Engel (Editor), Tom Regan (Contributor)

Synopsis

Edited by Mylan Engel Jr. and Gary Lynn Comstock, this book employs different ethical lenses, including classical deontology, libertarianism, commonsense morality, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and the capabilities approach, to explore the philosophical basis for the strong animal rights view, which holds that animals have moral rights equal in strength to the rights of humans, while also addressing what are undoubtedly the most serious challenges to the strong animal rights stance, including the challenges posed by rights nihilism, the kind argument against animal rights, the problem of predation, and the comparative value of lives. In addition, contributors explore the practical import of animal rights both from a social policy standpoint and from the standpoint of personal ethical decisions concerning what to eat and whether to hunt animals. Unlike other volumes on animal rights, which focus primarily on the legal rights of animals, and unlike other anthologies on animal ethics, which tend to cover a wide variety of topics but only devote a few articles to each topic, this volume focuses exclusively on the question of whether animals have moral rights and the practical import of such rights. The Moral Rights of Animals will be an indispensable resource for scholars, teachers, and students in the fields of animal ethics, applied ethics, ethical theory, and human-animal studies, as well as animal rights advocates and policy makers interested in improving the treatment of animals.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 328
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 23 Mar 2018

ISBN 10: 149853192X
ISBN 13: 9781498531924

Media Reviews
The fifteen authors of these essays honor Tom Regan with their appreciation of his ground-breaking ideas about animal rights, but also by advancing the debate about the moral status of animals in all sorts of surprising new directions. Consistently well-written, rigorous, and engaging, these essays represent the state-of-the-art in animal ethics.--Jean Kazez, author of Animalkind: What We Owe to Animals
Author Bio
Mylan Engel Jr. is professor of philosophy at Northern Illinois University. Gary Comstock is professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University.