An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (Palgrave MacMillan Animal Ethics)
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Book Details
Author(s)
Alasdair Cochrane
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN / ASIN
0230239269
ISBN-13
9780230239265
Marketplace
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
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Description
Alasdair Cochrane introduces the most prominent schools in contemporary political theory – utilitarianism, liberalism, communitarianism, Marxism and feminism – and examines their implications for issues such as meat-eating, intensive agriculture, animal experimentation, religious slaughter and hunting.
An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory explores the debates and discusses controversies over what makes an entity worthy of justice: is it rationality, the ability to contribute to society, sentience, or something else? It also introduces and engages with debates about what our political obligations to animals might entail: is it simply not to cause them unnecessary suffering, or do we have much more demanding obligations not to kill, own, or even use non-human animals?
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