... AM10 InDefenseof Animals TheSecond Wave Edited byPeter Singer IDOA01 11/5/05, 9:01 AM3 ContentsNotes on Contributors viiIntroduction 1 Peter Singer Part I The Ideas1 Utilitarianism and Animals ... When the conse-quences of not telling the lie are worse than the consequences of telling it.To decide otherwise would be to engage in a kind of rule worship at the expense of other people’s interests. ... behavior. As the essays inthe last section of this book show, thereare many effective, nonviolent ways of reducing, and taking steps towardseliminating, the suffering that humans in ict on animals. ReferencesJasper,...
... count the interests of any individual equally with the like interests of any other. The racist violates this rule by giving greater weight to the interests of mem-bers of her own race. The sexist ... existence of other nerve fibers whichcome out from the brain and affect the extent to which the messages in the pain fibers are allowed to travel up the spinal cord into the brain. Sometimes the messages ... Assessing Suffering in Animals 37trying to avoid that something. We have, in other words, to make a leapfrom inside our own skins to the inside of theirs. But this leap is a verybare minimum....
... furtherextention of equality? When, at the beginning ofthe 1970s – in a period in which concern for the individual suffering, rather than for the unnaturaltreatment, of factory-farmed animals ... sort of detachment, or “releasement,”allowing living and non-living things to be what they are. Against the back-ground of this account of being -in- the- world, he censured the “horrifying”transformation ... metaphysics in other branches of philosophy. In the late 1960s, authors working in this area removed two significant obstaclesstanding inthe way of a larger reappraisal ofthe animal issue. On the one...
... nonhuman animals are subject to further com-plicating factors, including the fact that the Hebrew Bible contains severaldifferent ways of thinking about the earth’s other animalsin relation to the ... perspective.All these factors affected the thinking of those of us who were involved in the revival ofthe animal protection movement. Above all, we were con-scious of living in a post-Darwinian age when the ... tradi-tions play in developing or retarding views ofthe life around us.Since the death of Augustine of Hippo almost 1,600 years ago, the vastmajority of scholarship inthe Western intellectual...
... procedures, continue in use in Britain, the EU and the U.S. Inthe UK alone, in 2002, 1,271 proceduresinvolved administering substances to the eyes of rabbits.4 Another case is the testing of products ... London and the EU in 1986. In the U.S. much progress was made bythe late Christine Stevens andother animal groups in Washington during the 1950s and 1960s. After the publication ofPeterSinger s ... accomplished by reducing light and depriving the hens of food for ten tofourteen days. In a large study, mortality doubled during the first week of the molt and then doubled again during the second...
... Wave& apos; -Peter Weir dir.(1977) In the film, The Last Wave, the director is trying to communicate the idea of aculture within a culture or sub culture. The dominant culture inthe film is the ... understood by the whites concerning the Aborigines. The fact that all the modern scenes are filmed in lightcan also support the idea ofthe white culture being the predominate culture inthe filmbut ... dir.(1977) In the film, The Last Wave, the director is trying to communicate the idea of aculture within a culture or sub culture. The dominant culture inthe film is the whitemembers of society living...
... dir.(1977) Inthe film, The Last Wave, the director is trying to communicate the idea of aculturewithin a culture or sub culture. The dominant culture inthe film is the whitemembers of society living ... Last Wave& quot; -Peter Weir dir.(1977) In the film, The Last Wave, the director is trying to communicate the idea of aculture within a culture or sub culture. The dominant culture inthe film is the ... He is the link between the two worlds, and atthe same time he is the wallseparating them. Overall, I feel the film was good concerning the ideasbehind the storyline. Butdue in part to the director's...
... to them.This is another of Chasles’ theorems.LetxA=yB=zCbe the equations ofthe generating line.Let the fixed lines be inthe plane x z inclined at an angle of α to axis of z. Bythe ... curve ofthesecond order.2oWhen the fourth point coincides with one ofthe other points, the values of A, B, C vanish. But suppose the fourth point in nitely near to the intersection of u ... one system of circular sections,and let the vertex ofthe cone be the origin, and the line through the centres of the circles b e the axis of z, which line will in general be inclined to planex...
... valu-able china, women. Her father, who was the governor ofthe Duchy of Milan, gathered her family together, and they escaped with only the clothes on their backs. When they arrived in Austria, ... is what they wore in ancient Egypt,” I protest. His conquest of Egypt put all of France inthe thrall ofthe pharaohs. The soldiers returned from the Battle ofthe Pyramids with unimaginable ... brother’s consent. Now Pauline has left her second husband in Turin to pursue the life of an unmarried woman in Paris.They are not a family fi t for any throne. I think of my father’s con-tinuous...
... the exercising of these plans. Introduction Recent disasters inthe United States, especially Hurricane Katrina, have proven the inadequacy of planning for the protection and safety of ... to Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging bythe Office ofthe Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, U.S. Department of Human Services to provide this training around the nation. By ... to nearly half of their national LTC members by Mather Lifeways Institute on Aging in March 2005. There were respondents from 194 of these facilities across 30 states. Half ofthe respondents...
... recognized the gene as the unit of heredity the driving force for evolutionary change, and it recognized the products ofthe gene, the proteins, as the elements of cellular function. By examining the ... inthe Spanish Inquisition ofthe 1400s and wasadopted inthe 1870s by some of Austria’s (and Germany’s) intellectuals, including Georg vonSchönerer, leader ofthe Pan-German nationalists in ... amygdala. The spinal cord contains the machinery needed for simple reflex behaviors. Hausman pointed out that by examining the spinalcord, one can understand in microcosm the overall purpose of the...