In this Book
- The Moral Menagerie: PHILOSOPHY AND ANIMAL RIGHTS
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
The Moral Menagerie offers a broad philosophical analysis of the recent debate over animal rights. Marc Fellenz locates the debate in its historical and social contexts, traces its roots in the history of Western philosophy, and analyzes the most important arguments that have been offered on both sides.
Fellenz argues that the debate has been philosophically valuable for focusing attention on fundamental problems in ethics and other areas of philosophy, and for raising issues of concern to both Anglo-American and continental thinkers. More provocatively, he also argues that the form the debate often takes--attempting to extend our traditional human-centered moral categories to cover other animals--is ultimately inadequate. Making use of the critical perspectives found in environmentalism, feminism and post-modernism, he concludes that taking animals seriously requires a more radical reassessment our moral framework than the concept of ‘animal rights’ implies.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Introduction
- pp. 1-8
- PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF THE RECENT DEBATE
- 1. Why Care about Animals?
- pp. 11-32
- PART II: SURVEY OF EXTENSIONIST ARGUMENTS
- PART III: THE ANIMAL OR THE GOOD?
- 7. Extensionism and Its Limits
- pp. 121-137
- PART IV: THE HUMAN ANIMALS IN THE MENAGERIE
- 10. Sacrifice and Self-Overcoming
- pp. 189-210
- 11. The Child, the Hunter, and the Artist
- pp. 211-232
- Conclusion
- pp. 233-236
- Bibliography
- pp. 285-290
Additional Information
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2006