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9780820320410

Animals and Why They Matter

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  • ISBN13:

    9780820320410

  • ISBN10:

    0820320412

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-09-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr

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Summary

Animals and Why They Matterexamines the barriers that our philosophical traditions have erected between human beings and animals and reveals that the too-often ridiculed subject of animal rights is an issue crucially related to such problems within the human community as racism, sexism, and age discrimination. Mary Midgley's profound and clearly written narrative is a thought-provoking study of the way in which the opposition between reason and emotion has shaped our moral and political ideas and the problems it has raised. Whether considering vegetarianism, women's rights, or the "humanity" of pets, this book goes to the heart of the question of why all animals matter.

Author Biography

Mary Midgley is the author of Beast and Man and Heart and Mind. She lives in Newcastle on Tyne, England.

Table of Contents

Foreword 7(2)
1 Getting Animals in Focus
9(10)
2 Competition is Real but Limited
19(14)
3 Emotion, Emotiveness and Sentimentality
33(12)
4 The Rationalist Tradition (1): Absolute Dismissal
45(8)
5 The Rationalist Tradition (2): Interests, Rights and Language
53(12)
6 Equality and Outer Darkness
65(9)
7 Women, Animals and Other Awkward Cases
74(15)
8 Sentience and Social Claims
89(9)
9 The Significance of Species
98(14)
10 The Mixed Community
112(13)
11 What is Anthropomorphism?
125(9)
12 The Subjectivity and Consciousness of Animals
134(10)
13 What Can Matter to Us?
144(2)
Notes 146(9)
Index 155

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