Title:
Justice for animals : our collective responsibility
Author:
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication Date:
2022
Publication Information:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Physical Description:
xxvi, 372 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781982102500
Abstract:
Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that people purport to love, animals suffer injustice and horrors at our hands every day. The world needs an ethical awakening, a consciousness-raising movement of international proportions. In Justice for Animals, Martha C. Nussbaum provides a new approach to animal rights, ethics, and law. From dolphins to crows, elephants to octopuses, Nussbaum examines the entire animal kingdom, showcasing the lives of animals with wonder, awe, and compassion to understand how we can create a world in which human beings are truly friends of animals, not exploiters or users. All animals should have a shot at flourishing in their own way. Humans have a collective duty to face and solve animal harm.
Contents:
Brutality and neglect: injustice in animal lives -- The Scala Naturae and the "So like us" approach -- The utilitarians: pleasure and pain -- Christine Korsgaard's Kantian approach -- The capabilities approach: forms of life and respecting the creatures who live them -- Sentience and striving: a working boundary -- The harm of death -- Tragic conflicts and how to move beyond them -- Animals who live with us -- The "wild" and human responsibility -- The capabilities of friendship -- The role of law.
Language:
English
