This engaging volume explores and defends the claim that misanthropy
is a justified attitude towards humankind in the light of how human
beings both compare with and treat animals. Reflection on differences
between humans and animals helps to confirm the misanthropic verdict,
while reflection on the moral and other failings manifest in our
treatment of animals illuminates what is wrong with this treatment.
Human failings, it is argued, are too entrenched to permit optimism
about the future of animals, but ways are proposed in which individual
people may accommodate to the truth of misanthropy through cultivating
mindful, humble and compassionate relationships to animals. Drawing on
both Eastern and Western philosophical traditions David E. Cooper
offers an original and challenging approach to the complex field of
animal ethics.
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ISBN
9781351583770
Publisert
2018
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Routledge
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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