Introduction | p. 9 |
Some Questions | p. 11 |
Emotional Kinship | p. 14 |
The Moral Kinship Hypothesis | p. 17 |
Morally Laden Emotions | p. 23 |
Evaluating the Moral Kinship Hypothesis | p. 25 |
Methodology | p. 26 |
Telling Tales | p. 28 |
Marking the Boundary | p. 29 |
Emotional Kinship | p. 35 |
Animals Are Like Us | p. 36 |
Eudaimonistic Emotions | p. 43 |
Wild with Grief | p. 43 |
A Barnyard Tale of Friendship and Loss | p. 45 |
Dying of Grief | p. 47 |
Conclusion | p. 54 |
Emotions and Moral Virtue | p. 59 |
Compassionate Animals | p. 61 |
What Is Compassion? | p. 65 |
What Is Moral Virtue? | p. 69 |
Why Are the Virtues Morally Good? | p. 73 |
What Is the Right Motivation? | p. 75 |
Thick and Thin | p. 77 |
Conclusion | p. 85 |
Evolutionary Continuity | p. 93 |
Darwin's Stories | p. 94 |
The Continuity Thesis | p. 98 |
Criticisms of the Continuity Thesis | p. 100 |
The Unity of Psychology | p. 104 |
Conclusion | p. 110 |
The Good Chimp | p. 117 |
Stories - Lending a Hand | p. 119 |
The Nature of Morality | p. 121 |
The Nature of Emotions | p. 129 |
Anthropomorphism | p. 137 |
Conclusion | p. 139 |
Children and Animals | p. 153 |
Childhood Animality | p. 153 |
A Puzzle about the Reactive Attitudes | p. 157 |
The Rationality Condition - Reflective Self-Control | p. 162 |
Morally Appraising Children | p. 164 |
The Intentionality Condition - Voluntary Action | p. 168 |
Conclusion | p. 171 |
Bad Wolves | p. 179 |
Story - The Loop | p. 180 |
Blaming | p. 184 |
Sharing "Simple" Emotions | p. 187 |
The Moral Responsibility of Trained Animals | p. 193 |
Conclusion | p. 199 |
Stories | p. 203 |
The Problem of Methodology | p. 205 |
The Role of Fancy | p. 208 |
The Limits of Fancy | p. 216 |
Reading for Context | p. 225 |
The Value of Animal Stories | p. 228 |
Conclusion | p. 231 |
Marking the Boundary | p. 239 |
Summary of the Argument | p. 243 |
Other Philosophical Approaches | p. 249 |
Human Uniqueness without Superiority | p. 252 |
Bibliography | p. 259 |
Index | p. 275 |
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