... hesitatingly, in the 1960s, in the United Kingdom. The first sign of a new, more radicalapproach to combating the maltreatment ofanimals was the willingness of some members of the League Against ... Disobediencefor Animals 167Pelle Strindlund13 Opening Cages, Opening Eyes: An Investigation andOpen Rescue at an Egg Factory Farm 174Miyun Park14 Living and Working inDefenseofAnimals 181Matt ... adopted“rules of thumb” that, in general, promote the greatest satisfaction of inter-ests by guiding my actions in ordinary situations. Such rules of thumb wouldlikely include most of our common...
... 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...
... published Defense Working Capital Fund Pricing Policies: Insightsfrom the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (Keating and Gates, 1999). Thatdocument analyzed the Defense Finance and Accounting ... more in- depth examination of DFAS pricing policies, building upon the Keating andGates study. This report presents the results of that effort.Like other DWCF organizations—including the Defense ... 11. IntroductionAs 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...
... 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...
... defines “intrinsic” thus: “belonging tothe 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 orintrinsic 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, forinstance the duty not...
... philosophy.Academic disciplines do not exist in a vacuum. The moral dilemmaentailed in patenting farmed animals will be decided in light of suchdiverse disciplines as genetic engineering, theology, law, ... harmful use of animalsin research, their “lesser” value being “sacrificed” for the“greater” value of humanity. Grounded in the recognition of the equalinherent 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...
... pos-sibilities embedded in Singer’s replaceability argument.These surprising outcomes appear to stem from errors in Singer’sreasoning. In “Killing Humans and Killing Animals Singer exam-ines two utilitarian ... view” indicates that ethicalactions will always “increase the total surplus of pleasure over pain,irrespective of whether this is done by increasing the pleasure of existing beings, or increasing ... for bringing it into theworld, why is the certain increased pain of a defective child a rea-son against bringing it into the world? The question no longer appearsasymmetrical or perplexing....
... objectto 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 witha ... backwardness in the treatment ofanimals thatmight best be explained by the “extreme difficulty human beingsexperience 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...
... 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 animalsof 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 examinesbiblical challenges to his thesis, including the practices of anymalsacrifice and eating flesh, and the biblical concept of dominion.Finally, Linzey examines the...
... or jackal in our next life. Reincarnation forcesHindus to see themselves in every other living being, and to seeevery other living being in themselves. Inasmuch as Indians see God in humanity, ... traditions 313indebted to the larger Hindu tradition, including the concepts of karma and reincarnation. Jain scriptures note: In hurting [anymals]men hurt themselves,/And will be born again among ... depicted in Indian art playing a flute alongside agentle cow.For Hindus there is no clear line dividing human beings or godsfrom anymals. Hindu religious texts are filled with stories of divini-ties...