Sentientist Politics
A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 October 2018
- ISBN 9780198789802
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages174 pages
- Size 243x162x15 mm
- Weight 420 g
- Language English 50
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Short description:
There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications. This book is devoted to sketching what this 'sentientist politics' might look like.
MoreLong description:
There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications. Indeed, most are in agreement that animal sentience ought to constrain the actions of political institutions, limiting the harms that can be perpetrated against animals. The primary aim of this book is to show that the political implications of animal sentience go even further than this. For this book argues that sentience establishes a moral equality and a shared set of rights amongst those creatures who possess it. Crucially, this worth and these rights create a duty on moral agents to establish and maintain a political order dedicated to their interests.
This book is devoted to sketching what this 'sentientist politics' might look like. It argues in favour of a ' sentientist cosmopolitan democracy': a global political system made up of overlapping local, national, regional and global communities comprised of human and non-human members who exist within shared 'communities of fate'. Furthermore, the institutions of those communities should be democratic - that is to say, participative, deliberative and representative. Finally, those institutions should include dedicated representatives of non-human animals whose job should be to translate the interests of animals into deliberations over what is in the public good for their communities.
an audacious work ... Cochrane meticulously disassembles the relations argument, the value of ecosystems argument, the unintended consequences objection, the zooification of nature/end of wilderness argument, and the overburdening cost argument -- all with surgical precision.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Equality, Rights, and Sentientist Politics
Sentientist Democracy
Sentientist Cosmopolitan Democracy
Sovereignty for Animals?
Diversity and Toleration in a Sentientist Political Order
Securing Sentientist Politics
Conclusion
