... AM10 InDefenseof Animals TheSecond Wave Edited by Peter 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,...
... consider the interests of nonhuman animals to be equal only to the like interests of other nonhuman animals. I don’t believe there is any good reason to adopt the weak principle in place ofthe strong ... 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...
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... 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 ... Hitler.Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, the influential archbishop of Vienna, once a sympathetic defender of the Jewish community, ordered all the Catholic churches inthe city to fly the Nazi flag and ring ... to the core of our identity, of who we are. The new biology of mind has emerged gradually over the five decades of my career. The firststeps were taken inthe 1960s, when the philosophy of mind,...
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