The Moral Animal

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Raised by a pack of wolves, the little boy known as Mowgli forms the human heart of an animal community in the Indian wilderness. These selections ...

What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is ``identity`` now a la...

DescriptionEthics is as old as the city-state and as new as cyberspace. Guided by the wagon tracks of moral tradition, it nevertheless rides the cu...

DescriptionDuncan Williamson was a Scottish traveler who went on to become one of Britain's master storytellers. During his lifetime he was acclaim...

Combining popular science, history and moral philosophy, this is a wide-ranging and radical take on the human story and what it means for us todayP...

Contributor(s): Author: Geoffrey ChaucerTranslator: David WrightA clear modern prose translation of Chaucer's masterpiece of Middle English storyte...

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Reducere. Even before the publication of his seminal Animal Liberation in 1975, Peter Singer, one of the greatest moral philosophers of our time, unflinching...

Reducere. The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the e...

For millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Fo...

A powerful and wide-ranging indictment of the treatment of animals by humans--and an eloquent plea for animal rights. Every cow just wants to be ha...

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Based on the teachings of the Buddha, this book offers the most compelling and impassioned indictment of meat-eating to be found in Tibetan literat...

"Until relatively recently, vegetarianism was a dietary alternative for Christians--a mere option or perhaps, for some, a conviction. But the bibli...

"Ask the beast and it will teach thee, and the birds of heaven and they will tell thee." --Job 12: 7In the Middle Ages, the bestiary achieved a pop...

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Description◆ A fox's quest to search for food turns out to be a life-changing lesson in how to be good. A sublime fable told in verse and rhyme ◆Fo...

Most people care about animals, but only a tiny fraction are vegan. The rest often think of veganism as an extreme position. They certainly do not ...

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Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our abi...

Combining popular science, history and moral philosophy, this is a wide-ranging and radical new take on the human story and what it means for us to...

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Reducere. Buddhism ought to be an animal rights religion par excellence. It has long held that all life forms are sacred and considers kindness and compassio...

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This Element introduces the philosophy of Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904), a very well-known moral theorist, advocate of animal welfare and women's...

Case Studies in Health Care Ethics is an ideal primary or supplemental text for college students taking a bioethics course, and will be useful to a...

Innovative advice for leading with grit and humanityThis inspirational guide by Robin R. Ganzert, PhD, president and CEO of one of the most renowne...

"A compelling story about the kind of moral, life-giving decisions that businesses can make to do good while doing well."--Mark Bittman, author of ...

Reducere. What is morality and what is the source of our moral ideas? Philosophers have explored these questions for centuries, suggesting that both emotion ...

Claims about consciousness in animals are often made in support of their moral standing. Peter Carruthers argues that there is no fact of the matte...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mary MidgleyAnimals and Why They Matter examines the barriers that our philosophical traditions have erected between human ...

"My help comes from the Lord, maker of heaven and earth." Evil is an intruder upon a world created by God and declared good. Scripture emphasizes t...

In books making the argument for animal ethics, most works either do not address the religious tradition of ethics or use the religious tradition t...

More than twenty years after its original publication, The Case for Animal Rights is an acknowledged classic of moral philosophy, and its author is...

A contemporary artist explores relationships among humans and animals, real and mythical German artist Lin May Saeed (b. 1973) grapples with the co...

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Veterinary Ethics in Practice gives non-specialist veterinary professionals an introduction to ethics. It helps readers to think about, and discuss...

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Reducere. In 21st Century Ethics, Dr. Glenn Rogers does four things: 1) provides a historical overview of the major systems of moral philosophy that have sha...

Claims about consciousness in animals are often made in support of their moral standing. Peter Carruthers argues that there is no fact of the matte...

Examines JM Coetzee's writings about Elizabeth Costello, and the ways in which philosophers have responded to them. This book considers the relatio...

"The Bell Curve", "The Moral Animal", "The Selfish Gene" - these and a host of other books and articles have made a seemingly overwhelming case tha...

The result of extensive scholarship and consultation with leading scholars, this classic text introduces students to twenty-four theorists and comp...