Why Animal Suffering Matters
Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 December 2013
- ISBN 9780199351848
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 231x155x17 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In this superbly argued and deeply engaging book, Andrew Linzey not only shows that animals can and do suffer but also that many of the justifications for inflicting animal suffering in fact provide grounds for protecting them.
MoreLong description:
How we treat animals arouses strong emotions. Many people are repulsed by photographs of cruelty to animals and respond passionately to how we make animals suffer for food, commerce, and sport. But is this, as some argue, a purely emotional issue? Are there really no rational grounds for opposing our current treatment of animals?
In Why Animal Suffering Matters, Andrew Linzey argues that when analyzed impartially the rational case for extending moral solicitude to all sentient beings is much stronger than many suppose. Indeed, Linzey shows that many of the justifications for inflicting animal suffering in fact provide grounds for protecting them. Because animals, the argument goes, lack reason or souls or language, harming them is not an offense. Linzey suggests that just the opposite is true, that the inability of animals to give or withhold consent, their inability to represent their interests, their moral innocence, and their relative defenselessness all compel us not to harm them.
Andrew Linzey further shows that the arguments in favor of three controversial practices--hunting with dogs, fur farming, and commercial sealing--cannot withstand rational critique. He considers the economic, legal, and political issues surrounding each of these practices, appealing not to our emotions but to our reason, and shows that they are rationally unsupportable and morally repugnant.
In this superbly argued and deeply engaging book, Linzey pioneers a new theory about why animal suffering matters, maintaining that sentient animals, like infants and young children, should be accorded a special moral status.
Linzey brings fresh eyes to the tradition, discovers in it unexpected resources, and breathes new life into doctrines that have come to seem antiquated.
Table of Contents:
Contents
About the Author
Introduction: Reason, Ethics, and Animals
Part One: Making the Rational Case
1. Why Animal Suffering Matters Morally
2. How We Minimise Animal Suffering and How We Can Change
Part Two: Three Practical Critiques
3. First Case: Hunting with Dogs
4. Second Case: Fur Farming
5. Third Case: Commercial Sealing
6. Conclusion: Re-Establishing Animals and Children as a Common Cause, and Six Objections Considered
Acknowledgements
Index
