Animal Rights: A Historical AnthologyAndrew Linzey, Paul A. B. Clarke Columbia University Press, 2004 - 193 pages This comprehensive and diverse anthology, the only one of its kind, illuminates the complex evolution of moral thought regarding animals and includes writings from ancient Greece to the present. Animal Rights reveals the ways in which a variety of thinkers have addressed such issues as our ethical responsibilities for the welfare of animals, whether animals have rights, and what it means to be human. |
Contents
Creation of the Universe PLATO | 3 |
Animals are not Political ARISTOTLE | 6 |
Animals are not Rational Creatures St THOMAS AQUINAS | 7 |
The Human and the Beast NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI | 12 |
Animals as Automata RENE DESCARTES | 14 |
Animals have no Language THOMAS HOBBES | 17 |
Understanding in Animals JOHN LOCKE | 21 |
A Response to Locke GEORGE BERKELEY | 25 |
Animals as Utilities HENRY SIDGWICK | 87 |
Nature Teaches Mutual Aid PETER KROPOTKIN | 88 |
Dominion as Power BERTRAND RUSSELL | 91 |
Critique of the Principle of Domination MAX HORKHEIMER | 92 |
Dominion is Social ROSALIND COWARD | 95 |
Justice Rights and Obligations | 99 |
Justice Requires Friendship ARISTOTLE | 101 |
No Friendship with Irrational Creatures St THOMAS AQUINAS | 102 |
Of the Reason of Animals DAVID HUME | 27 |
On Animal Souls GW LEIBNIZ | 29 |
Freedom of the Will JEANJACQUES ROUSSEAU | 32 |
Organic Difference JOHANN G HERDER | 34 |
Animals have no Concepts ARTUR SCHOPENHAUER | 37 |
Animals are not SelfAware GWF HEGEL | 39 |
An Animal is not a Species Being KARL MARX | 42 |
On the Genius of Species FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE | 44 |
The Lure of the Simple Distinction MARY MIDGLEY | 47 |
Dominion and the Limits to Power | 51 |
The Golden Age PLATO | 53 |
Animals are for Our Use ARISTOTLE | 56 |
Rational Domination St AUGUSTINE | 59 |
Unrestricted Dominion St THOMAS AQUINAS | 60 |
Difference does Not Justify Domination MICHEL E de MONTAIGNE | 64 |
Animals in the Cosmic Hierarchy RICHARD HOOKER | 66 |
The Right of Nature THOMAS HOBBES | 67 |
Dominion is Subject to Law SAMUEL PUFENDORF | 68 |
The Workmanship Model JOHN LOCKE | 71 |
Responsibility to the Weak ALEXANDER POPE | 72 |
Animals do Not Make War on Humans JEANJACQUES ROUSSEAU | 76 |
Animals may be Used IMMANUEL KANT | 78 |
Dominion and Property JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE | 79 |
The Limits to Power JOHN STUART MILL | 84 |
Exclusion from Friendship is Not Rational MICHEL E de MONTAIGNE | 105 |
The Government of Animals THOMAS HOBBES | 112 |
Animals have no Intrinsic Rights SAMUEL PUFENDORF | 116 |
Cruelty is Not Natural JOHN LOCKE | 119 |
No Justice Without Equality DAVID HUME | 121 |
Differences do Not Justify Inequality HUMPHRY PRIMATT | 124 |
Duties to Animals are Indirect IMMANUEL KANT | 126 |
Animals are Not Constitutional Persons JAMES MADISON | 127 |
The Inalienable Rights of Animals HERMAN DAGGETT | 129 |
All Nature Suffers WILLIAM GODWIN | 132 |
Limits to the Rights over Animals ARTUR SCHOPENHAUER | 134 |
Duty to Minimize Suffering JEREMY BENTHAM | 135 |
Duties to Animals are Direct JOHN STUART MILL | 138 |
The Principle of Animal Rights HENRY SALT | 141 |
Pity for Animals FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE | 148 |
Duties to Life ALBERT SCHWEITZER | 152 |
Outside the Scope of the Theory of Justice JOHN RAWLS | 154 |
The Rights of Animals BRIGID BROPHY | 156 |
All Animals are Equal PETER SINGER | 162 |
Constraints and Animals ROBERT NOZICK | 167 |
The Feminist Challenge LYNDA BIRKE | 174 |
The Struggle for Animal Rights TOM REGAN | 176 |
Biographical Notes | 187 |
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