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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Three Editions of Angus Taylor's "Animals and Ethics"

Magpies, Monkeys, and Morals : What Philosophers Say About Animal Liberation
by Angus Taylor

To what extent can animals be regarded as part of the moral community? To what extent, if at all, do they have moral rights? Are we wrong to eat them or to hunt them? Is the use of animals for scientific research justified? And can the ideas behind animal liberation be squared with those of the environmental movement?