Fellow creatures : our obligations to the other animals

• Main Author: Korsgaard, Christine M
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2018; Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Edition: 1
• Series: Uehiro 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

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...