31. A Critique of Kant, by Arthur Schopenhauer
Principle of the Kantian Ethics
It is well
known that Kant laid down the supreme principle of his Ethics in
yet a second and quite different form in which it is
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32. The Ethic of Reverence for Life, by Albert Schweitzer
as incompatible with real ethics. ethics is in its
unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything
that has life.
The general
idea of
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33. Language and the Orang-utan: The Old 'Person' of the Forest, by H. Lyn White...
races, women, children and animals. Western
philosophy continued this imperious attitude with the views of
Descartes, who proposed that animals were just like machines with
no significant language,
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34. Defending Animals by Appeal to Rights, by Donald VanDeVeer
"Do Animals Have a Right to Liberty?" James Rachels seeks to show
that there are certain rights possessed by Animals and that
certain arguments purporting to show that it is not logically
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35. Why Darwinians Should Support Equal Treatment for Other Great Apes, by James...
our view about how animals may be treated. It does not follow that
we must treat all animals as the equals of humans, for there may
still be differences between humans and some animals that justify
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36. Apes and the Idea of Kindred, by Stephen R. L. Clark
(even if animal breeders are annoyed if the line they are
concerned about does not 'breed true'): it is what sex is for.
This may seem
old news. After all, moral
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37. Persons and Non-Persons, by Mary Midgley
paper '"Animal Liberation" as Crime', published in Ethics and
Animals,
edited by
Harlan B. Miller and William H. Williams.
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38. The Humanities of Diet, by Henry S. Salt
organized
animals, so human, so near akin to man. Let me quote a short
passage from the preface to Mr. Howard Williams's "Ethics of
Diet," an acknowledged text-book of Vegetarianism.
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39. Ambiguous Apes, by Raymond Corbey
from eating animals who are close to us, such as dogs and other
companion animals, while some other animals are killed for
pleasure. Apart from carrying the usual animal connotations, many
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