Animal ethics in context /

Animal ethics in context /

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Author / Creator:	Palmer, Clare, 1967-
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 203 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects. Animal rights. Animal rights. Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11284413

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ISBN:	9780231129046 0231129041 9780231129053 023112905X 9780231503020 0231503024 6612784482 9786612784484
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	"It is widely agreed that because animals feel pain we should not make them suffer gratuitously. Some ethical theories go even further: because of the capacities that they possess, animals have the right not to be harmed or killed. These views concern what not to do to animals, but we also face questions about when we should, and should not, assist animals that are hungry or distressed. Should we feed a starving stray kitten? And if so, does this commit us, if we are to be consistent, to feeding wild animals during a hard winter? In this controversial book, Clare Palmer advances a theory that claims, with respect to assisting animals, that what is owed to one is not necessarily owed to all, even if animals share similar psychological capacities. Context, history, and relation can be critical ethical factors. If animals live independently in the wild, their fate is not any of our moral business. Yet if humans create dependent animals, or destroy their habitats, we may have a responsibility to assist them. Such arguments are familiar in human cases-we think that parents have special obligations to their children, for example, or that some groups owe reparations to others. Palmer develops such relational concerns in the context of wild animals, domesticated animals, and urban scavengers, arguing that different contexts can create different moral relationships."--Publisher's description
Other form:	Print version: 9786612784484
Standard no.:	9786612784484

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Animals' Capacities and Moral Status
2. Capacity-Oriented Accounts of Animal Ethics
3. Capacities, Contexts, and Relations
4. Wildness, Domestication, and the Laissez-faire Intuition
5. Developing a New, Relational Approach
6. Past Harms and Special Obligations
7. Some Problems and Questions
8. Puzzling Through Some Cases
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index