in defense of animals peter singer

... AM10 In Defense of Animals The Second Wave Edited by Peter Singer IDOA01 11/5/05, 9:01 AM3 Contents Notes on Contributors vii Introduction 1 Peter Singer Part I The Ideas 1 Utilitarianism and Animals ... hesitatingly, in the 1960s, in the United Kingdom. The first sign of a new, more radical approach to combating the maltreatment of animals was the willingness of some members of the League Against ... permission of the publisher. First published 2006 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd 1 2006 Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data In defense of animals : the second wave / edited by Peter Singer. p....

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... recently, the independent committee investigating the disaster involving the space shuttle Columbia highlighted the importance of institutional culture in its findings, pointing to the self-protective ... engineering program at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden (originators of the widely used ThermoCalc thermodynamic software) of a degree in materials design and engineering. 9 ... representing the greatest engineering database in history. A parallel fundamental database initiative in support of computational materials engineering could build a physical science/engineering link...

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... published Defense Working Capital Fund Pricing Policies: Insights from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (Keating and Gates, 1999). That document analyzed the Defense Finance and Accounting ... more in- depth examination of DFAS pricing policies, building upon the Keating and Gates study. This report presents the results of that effort. Like other DWCF organizations—including the Defense ... 1 1. Introduction As its name suggests, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) provides finance and accounting services to its customers in the Department of Defense (DoD). DFAS’s finance...

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... have heard of no absolutely certain representation of the phoenix in English architecture, and the difficulty of finding one is intensified by the great simi- larity of the carvings of all birds ... were buried in niches along the corridors or in the chambers, the walls and roofs of which were stuccoed and covered with paintings. These paintings were quite frankly pagan in influence, though ... while the mountain behind has burst into flames. In a tenth century miniature at Brussels they are shown as two stones in the hand of a woman, one bursting into flame. A man is holding out his...

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... defines “intrinsic” thus: “belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing.” And it defines “inher- ent” thus: “involved in the constitution or essential character of some- thing intrinsic.” ... “inherent” and “intrinsic.” The “more or less similar concepts inherent value, inherent or intrinsic worth” contain a core meaning; these labels define “which Dedicated to /In loving memory of the many ... an animal that dwells in the Arctic. The interests of sentient individuals vary according to physiology— but only in degree, not in kind. The duties of moral agents, for instance the duty not...

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... philosophy. Academic disciplines do not exist in a vacuum. The moral dilemma entailed in patenting farmed animals will be decided in light of such diverse disciplines as genetic engineering, theology, law, ... harmful use of animals in research, their “lesser” value being “sacrificed” for the “greater” value of humanity. Grounded in the recognition of the equal inherent value of all those who have inherent ... sense of the future, including their own future; an emotional life together with feelings of pleasure and pain; preference- and welfare-interests; the ability to ini- tiate action in pursuit of...

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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 ... several interests combine to outweigh a smaller number of similar interests; but they take no account of whose interests they are weighing” (Singer, Practical 19). Singer insists that each individual ... value in other cultures calls into question some of Singer s key assumptions. peter singer: utilitarian protectionism 133 of intuition (“Utilitarianism” 9, 327). Singer will need something more...

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... object to releasing such critters into the wild. A species, like any other thing with interests, has an interest in main- taining itself as a coherent, integrated, functional ongoing whole with a ... backwardness in the treatment of animals that might best be explained by the “extreme difficulty human beings experience in apprehending animals as they are in themselves, inde- pendently of their ... 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 organisms...

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... sixth 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 ... weight of divine intent. Like Augustine, Aquinas has maintained tremendous in uence over Christianity right up to present times; most contem- porary church doctrines contain his teachings. In the thirteenth ... his findings, and then examines biblical challenges to his thesis, including the practices of anymal sacrifice and eating flesh, and the biblical concept of dominion. Finally, Linzey examines the...

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... or jackal in our next life. Reincarnation forces Hindus to see themselves in every other living being, and to see every other living being in themselves. Inasmuch as Indians see God in humanity, ... result of the in ux of white peo- ple, the fact remains that the Makah joined willingly, even greedily, in the frenzy of killing for profit. While the Makah suffered under the power and in uence of ... depicted in Indian art playing a flute alongside a gentle cow. For Hindus there is no clear line dividing human beings or gods from anymals. Hindu religious texts are filled with stories of divini- ties...

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