Animal suffering, human rights, and the virtue of justice / Per Bauhn.
2023
HV4708
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Title
Animal suffering, human rights, and the virtue of justice / Per Bauhn.
Author
Bauhn, Per. author.
ISBN
9783031270482 (electronic bk.)
3031270487 (electronic bk.)
9783031270475
3031270479
3031270487 (electronic bk.)
9783031270475
3031270479
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 83 pages) : illustrations
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10.1007/978-3-031-27048-2 doi
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HV4708
Dewey Decimal Classification
179.3
Summary
In this book, Per Bauhn does three things. First, he outlines some aspects of contemporary philosophical views on animals and morality, including the criticism of speciesism and the animal rights argument. Second, he criticizes these views, arguing that we cannot escape a speciesist perspective on morality, and that there are no good reasons why we should believe that non-human animals have moral rights. Third, he argues that cruelty against non-human animals is morally wrong, but not because animal rights are being violated but because human agents who inflict cruelty on non-human animals are failing their duty to develop in themselves the virtue of justice. This latter argument is reminiscent of Immanuel Kant's idea that we have only indirect duties towards animals, but unlike that idea, Bauhn's argument does not depend on any causal hypothesis that humans who are cruel to animals are likely to be cruel also to their fellow humans. Instead, Bauhn's argument relies on the fact that being cruel to non-human animals and other innocent beings is conceptually and logically inconsistent with the virtue of justice -- a virtue which agents are rationally required to develop in themselves. Per Bauhn is Emeritus Professor of Practical Philosophy at Linnaeus University, Sweden.
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction
References
2 The Suffering Inflicted on Non-Human Animals by Human Agents
References
3 Speciesism
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4 Sentientist Equality
4.1 Singer and Animal Rights
4.2 Regan and Animal Rights
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5 Kant on Duties to Animals
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6 Gewirthian Human Rights and Non-Human Animals
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7 Why Non-Human Animals Do Not Have Moral Rights
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8 In Defence of a Speciesist View of the Moral Community
8.1 The Amoral Order of Nature
8.2 The Case for Eating Meat
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9 Duties Regarding Animals and the Virtue of Justice
References.
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2 The Suffering Inflicted on Non-Human Animals by Human Agents
References
3 Speciesism
References
4 Sentientist Equality
4.1 Singer and Animal Rights
4.2 Regan and Animal Rights
References
5 Kant on Duties to Animals
References
6 Gewirthian Human Rights and Non-Human Animals
References
7 Why Non-Human Animals Do Not Have Moral Rights
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8 In Defence of a Speciesist View of the Moral Community
8.1 The Amoral Order of Nature
8.2 The Case for Eating Meat
References
9 Duties Regarding Animals and the Virtue of Justice
References.