Description: Interspecies Ethics explores animals' vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species. The social bonds diverse animals form provide a remarkable model for communitarian justice and cosmopolitan peace, challenging the human exceptionalism that drives modern moral theory. Situating biosocial ethics firmly within coevolutionary processes, this volume has profound implications for work in social and political thought, contemporary pragmatism, Africana thought, and continental philosophy.Interspecies Ethics develops a communitarian model for multispecies ethics, rebalancing the overemphasis on competition in the original Darwinian paradigm by drawing out and stressing the cooperationist aspects of evolutionary theory through mutual aid. The book's ethical vision offers an alternative to utilitarian, deontological, and virtue ethics, building its argument through rich anecdotes and clear explanations of recent scientific discoveries regarding animals and their agency. Geared toward a general as well as a philosophical audience, the text illuminates a variety of theories and contrasting approaches, tracing the contours of a postmoral ethics.
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EAN: 9780231167772
UPC: 9780231167772
ISBN: 9780231167772
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Item Length: 22.6 cm
Item Weight: 0.32 kg
Book Title: Interspecies Ethics
Item Height: 229mm
Item Width: 152mm
Author: Cynthia Willett
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Popular Philosophy
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Number of Pages: 232 Pages