Fellow creatures : our obligations to the other animals

This book argues that we are obligated to treat all sentient animals as “ends in themselves.” Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, it offers an explanation of why animals are the sorts of beings who have a good. Drawing on a revised version of Kant’s argument for the value of huma...

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Main Author Korsgaard, Christine M
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Oxford University Press 2018
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Edition1
SeriesUehiro Series in Practical Ethics
Subjects
Animal welfare > Moral and ethical aspects
Human-animal relationships
Moral Philosophy
extinction
marginal cases
pleasure
moral standing
animals
rationality
humans
good
Aristotle
Kant
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Table of Contents:
  • 5.2 Against the Argument from Marginal Cases -- 5.2.1 -- 5.2.2 -- 5.2.3 -- 5.3 Atemporal Creatures -- 5.3.1 -- 5.3.2 -- 5.3.3 -- 5.3.4 -- 5.3.5 -- 5.3.6 -- 5.4 What Is Moral Standing Anyway? -- 5.4.1 -- 5.4.2 -- 5.4.3 -- 6: Kant against the Animals, Part 1: The Indirect Duty View -- 6.1 Animals as Mere Means -- 6.1.1 -- 6.2 How Kant Thinks We Ought to Treat Animals -- 6.2.1 -- 6.2.2 -- 6.2.3 -- 6.3 An Incoherent Attitude -- 6.3.1 -- 6.3.2 -- 6.3.3 -- 6.4 The Problem of the Moral Filter -- 6.4.1 -- 6.4.2 -- 6.4.3 -- 6.4.4 -- 6.5 Desert and the Worthiness to Be Happy -- 6.5.1 -- 6.5.2 -- 6.6 Treated Like Animals -- 6.6.1 -- 6.6.2 -- 6.6.3 -- 7: Kant against the Animals, Part 2: Reciprocity and the Grounds of Obligation -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.1.1 -- 7.2 Reciprocity Arguments -- 7.2.1 -- 7.2.2 -- 7.3 Kant's Account of Moral Choice -- 7.3.1 -- 7.3.2 -- 7.4 Kant on Reciprocal Legislation -- 7.4.1 -- 7.4.2 -- 7.5 The Universalization Test and the Treatment of Animals -- 7.5.1 -- 7.5.2 -- 7.5.3 -- 8: A Kantian Case for Our Obligations to the Other Animals -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.1.1 -- 8.1.2 -- 8.2 Kant's Copernican Revolution -- 8.2.1 -- 8.2.2 -- 8.2.3 -- 8.3 The Concept of an End in Itself -- 8.3.1 -- 8.3.2 -- 8.3.3 -- 8.4 Valuing Ourselves as Ends in Ourselves -- 8.4.1 -- 8.4.2 -- 8.4.3 -- 8.4.4 -- 8.4.5 -- 8.4.6 -- 8.5 Valuing Animals as Ends in Themselves -- 8.5.1 -- 8.5.2 -- 8.5.3 -- 8.5.4 -- 8.5.5 -- 8.6 Morality as Our Way of Being Animals -- 8.6.1 -- 8.7 Different Moral Relations to People and Animals -- 8.7.1 -- 8.7.2 -- 8.7.3 -- 8.8 Trouble in the Kingdom of Ends -- 8.8.1 -- 8.8.2 -- 8.8.3 -- 8.8.4 -- 8.8.5 -- 9: The Role of Pleasure and Pain -- 9.1 Rapprochement with Utilitarianism? -- 9.1.1 -- 9.2 Aggregation and Its Implications -- 9.2.1 -- 9.2.2 -- 9.2.3 -- 9.3 The Nature of Pleasure and Pain -- 9.3.1 -- 9.3.2 -- 9.3.3
  • Cover -- Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I: Human Beings and the Other Animals -- 1: Are People More Important than the Other Animals? -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 -- 1.1.2 -- 1.1.3 -- 1.1.4 -- 1.2 Reasons to Treat People and Animals Differently -- 1.2.1 -- 1.2.2 -- 1.2.3 -- 1.2.4 -- 1.2.5 -- 1.3 Tethered Values -- 1.3.1 -- 1.3.2 -- 1.3.3 -- 1.4 Why Tethered Values and Superior Importance Are (Almost) Incompatible -- 1.4.1 -- 1.4.2 -- 2: Animal Selves and the Good -- 2.1 The Origin of the Good -- 2.1.1 -- 2.1.2 -- 2.1.3 -- 2.1.4 -- 2.1.5 -- 2.1.6 -- 2.1.7 -- 2.1.8 -- 2.1.9 -- 2.2 Objections -- 2.2.1 -- 2.2.2 -- 2.2.3 -- 2.2.4 -- 2.2.5 -- 2.2.6 -- 2.3 Self-Consciousness and the Self -- 2.3.1 -- 2.3.2 -- 2.3.3 -- 2.3.4 -- 2.4 Active and Passive Self-Constitution -- 2.4.1 -- 3: What's Different about Being Human? -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 -- 3.1.2 -- 3.1.3 -- 3.2 Rational and Instinctive Minds -- 3.2.1 -- 3.2.2 -- 3.2.3 -- 3.2.4 -- 3.2.5 -- 3.3 Evaluating Reasons and Evaluating the Self -- 3.3.1 -- 3.3.2 -- 3.3.3 -- 3.3.4 -- 3.3.5 -- 3.3.6 -- 3.4 Species Being -- 3.4.1 -- 3.4.2 -- 3.5 Ethics and Science -- 3.5.1 -- 3.5.2 -- 4: The Case against Human Superiority -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.1.1 -- 4.1.2 -- 4.2 Does Morality Make Humans Superior to the Other Animals? -- 4.2.1 -- 4.2.2 -- 4.2.3 -- 4.2.4 -- 4.2.5 -- 4.2.6 -- 4.2.7 -- 4.3 The Implications of Cognitive Sophistication -- 4.3.1 -- 4.3.2 -- 4.3.3 -- 4.3.4 -- 4.3.5 -- 4.3.6 -- 4.3.7 -- 4.3.8 -- 4.3.9 -- 4.3.10 -- 4.4 Are Humans Better Off than the Other Animals? -- 4.4.1 -- 4.4.2 -- 4.4.3 -- 4.4.4 -- 4.4.5 -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 4.5.1 -- PART II: Immanuel Kant and the Animals -- 5: Kant, Marginal Cases, and MoralStanding -- 5.1 Human Beings as Ends in Themselves -- 5.1.1 -- 5.1.2
  • 9.4 The Place of Pleasure and Pain in the Final Good -- 9.4.1 -- 9.4.2 -- 9.4.3 -- 9.4.4 -- 9.4.5 -- 9.5 Matters of Life and Death -- 9.5.1 -- 9.5.2 -- 9.6 Kantian Naturalism -- 9.6.1 -- 9.6.2 -- PART III: Consequences -- 10: The Animal Antinomy, Part 1: Creation Ethics -- 10.1 Eliminating Predation -- 10.1.1 -- 10.1.2 -- 10.2 Abolitionism -- 10.2.1 -- 10.2.2 -- 10.2.3 -- 10.2.4 -- 10.3 The Animal Antinomy -- 10.3.1 -- 10.3.2 -- 10.3.3 -- 10.4 Creation Ethics -- 10.4.1 -- 10.4.2 -- 10.4.3 -- 10.4.4 -- 10.4.5 -- 10.4.6 -- 10.4.7 -- 10.5 Individuals, Groups, and Species -- 10.5.1 -- 10.5.2 -- 11: Species, Communities, and Habitat Loss -- 11.1 The Value of Species -- 11.1.1 -- 11.1.2 -- 11.1.3 -- 11.1.4 -- 11.2 The Good of a Species and the Good of Its Members -- 11.2.1 -- 11.2.2 -- 11.3 What Is a Species? -- 11.3.1 -- 11.3.2 -- 11.4 Does a Species Have a Good? -- 11.4.1 -- 11.4.2 -- 11.4.3 -- 11.4.4 -- 11.4.5 -- 11.5 Species as Generic Organisms -- 11.5.1 -- 11.5.2 -- 11.5.3 -- 11.6 How to Care about Species -- 11.6.1 -- 11.6.2 -- 11.6.3 -- 11.6.4 -- 11.6.5 -- 11.6.6 -- 11.7 Eliminating Predation Again -- 11.7.1 -- 11.8 Restoring Habitat -- 11.8.1 -- 11.8.2 -- 11.8.3 -- 11.8.4 -- 11.9 Should Humans Go Extinct? -- 11.9.1 -- 11.9.2 -- 11.9.3 -- 12: The Animal Antinomy, Part 2: Abolition and Apartheid -- 12.1 Reorganizing Nature -- 12.1.1 -- 12.1.2 -- 12.1.3 -- 12.1.4 -- 12.2 How to Treat Animals as Ends in Themselves -- 12.2.1 -- 12.3 Eating Animals -- 12.3.1 -- 12.3.2 -- 12.3.3 -- 12.3.4 -- 12.4 Working Animals and Animals in the Military -- 12.4.1 -- 12.4.2 -- 12.5 The Use of Animals in Scientific Experiments -- 12.5.1 -- 12.5.2 -- 12.5.3 -- 12.5.4 -- 12.5.5 -- 12.6 Companion Animals -- 12.6.1 -- 12.6.2 -- 12.6.3 -- 12.6.4 -- 12.6.5 -- 12.6.6 -- Bibliography -- Index