Animal Rights, Human Wrongs An Introduction to Moral Philosophy

by Regan, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780742533547
• ISBN10: 0742533549
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-19
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Regan provides the theoretical framework that grounds a responsible pro-animal rights perspective, and ultimately explores how asking moral questions about other animals can lead to a better understanding of ourselves.

Author Biography

Tom Regan is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, North Carolina State University.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	ix
PREFACE	xi
1 From Indifference to Advocacy	1	(8)
2 Animal Exploitation	9	(14)
3 The Nature and Importance of Rights	23	(8)
4 Indirect Duty Views	31	(20)
5 Direct Duty Views	51	(16)
6 Human Rights	67	(24)
7 Animal Rights	91	(8)
8 Objections and Replies	99	(16)
9 Moral Philosophy and Change	115	(8)
NOTES	123	(14)
INDEX	137	(4)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR	141
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Introduction
Rebecca Wecks	ix
The Second World War
Ruth Naylor	1	(3)
The Road to Reconciliation
Laura Davis	4	(6)
Coastal Real Estate
David Goguen	10	(10)
My Mother Through a Window, Smiling
Cherie Jones	20	(6)
Full Circle
Mitali Perkins	26	(12)
The Stars Are Ours
Tom Skierka	38	(6)
The Home Front
Caryl K. Sills	44	(12)
Solid Ground
Cooper Gallegos	56	(8)
Doctor Jones and the One Percent Solution
Pirooz M. Kalayeh	64	(10)
There Is Always a Way
Opal Palmer Adisa	74	(11)
That's How It Is with My Mother
Jennifer Robinson	85	(21)
Have You Seen My Mother, Delilah Bending?
Curtis Smith	106	(12)
So Much Running and Never Coming Home
Leonie Sherman	118	(10)
Pearls
Marsha Dubrow	128	(12)
God Is in the Cracks
Robert Sward	140	(2)
My Mother's Teeth
C.A. Peck	142	(4)
Blind
Cherie Jones	146	(10)
The Elephant in the Room
Laura Davis	156	(6)
Nietzsche and the Ghost in the Attic
Melissa Sanders-Self	162	(24)
Thursday Afternoon
Nancy Robertson	186	(16)
The Shoal Near Broken Cliffs
Peter Reese	202	(14)
The Nickname
Sharon Bray	216	(6)
Runaways
Ashley Shelby	222	(20)
The Day I Met My Mother
Rusty Fischer	242	(8)
A Story of George
C. Marie Finn	250	(7)
Conversations on the Edge of a Bed
Patti K. See	257	(6)
A Helping Hand
Ana Rasmussen	263	(6)
With My Son Aboard
Robert T. Ritchie	269	(18)
Naming
Elise Geither	287	(2)
Contributor Biographies	289