In Search of Consistency: Ethics and Animals [Human–Animal Studies] Part 7 pdf

... things into one, equalizing all things and all opinions” (Chan 177 ). Nothing lies outside of this Daoist continuum, and so “the chain of being is never broken,” and a link can “always be found ... containing the life and words of Mohammed teach against using the skins of wild animals, against target practice on living creatures, and against inciting animals to fight for h...

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... 143 Conclusion 144 PREFACE In Search of Consistency: Ethics and Animals examines the discrepancy in applied ethics between treatment of human life and treatment of all other life-forms. In the process, ... defines “intrinsic” thus: “belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing.” And it defines “inher- ent” thus: “involved in the constitution or es...

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... outside of this position of bias—it is inherent. However, in the interest of promoting justice, we must strive to be impartial in spite of our vested interests and personal connections. Since we ... to investigating rights in the hope of understanding— and being able to explain—why it was morally unacceptable to draft young men to fight in Viet Nam. He wondered about the...

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... pos- sibilities embedded in Singer’s replaceability argument. These surprising outcomes appear to stem from errors in Singer’s reasoning. In “Killing Humans and Killing Animals Singer exam- ines two utilitarian ... view” indicates that ethical actions will always “increase the total surplus of pleasure over pain, irrespective of whether this is done by increasing the pleasure of...

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... Community of Life; the view of nature as a system of interdependence of which we, along with all other living things, are integral parts; and our aware- ness of the reality of the lives of individual ... entity’s well-being might entail. Some—insects in particular—sacrifice indi- viduals for the sake of species, for the furthering of group goals, revealing some of the m...

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... day) animals, including man and woman: And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind.” And it ... wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good. The...

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... in every other living being, and to see every other living being in themselves. Inasmuch as Indians see God in humanity, they must also find the divine in anymals. “Hindu belief in the cycle of ... forms of tigers and lions and deer, of wolves and bears and birds, fowls and of jackals as well. He it is that assumes the forms of swans and crows and pea- cocks...

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... which a liv- ing thing capable of experiencing them can ensure its survival and the fulfillment of its needs. But it is the interests that it has in virtue of its being a living being, and our ability ... determinants of moral standing such as “having an interest” and “sentience.” Recall Regan’s clarification of two distinctive types of “interest,” active and passive, such...

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... captive breeding, a long-stand- ing ethic of minimizing interference and minimizing harm would likely have assured the continuance of the Maori as well as that of endangered and extinct species. Where ... that mistreatment of animals is a standard part of training and is thought to be a “necessary” part of exhibiting them. I have seen chimps locked in small cages con...

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... al-Din, 3 57 Augustine, 223, 224 Australia, 106, 4 07, 418 aborigines of, 293 indigenous peoples of, 288–293 myths from, 292 sheep in, 4 57 ayllu, 294, 295 Baby Theresa, 3 67, 375 , 398, 399, 477 Basil ... Readings. Belmont: Wadsworth, 19 97. Valladolid, Julio and Frederique Apffel-Marglin. “Andean Cosmovision and the Nurturing of Biodiversity.” Indigenous Traditions and Ecolog...

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