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Author Linzey, Andrew.
Title Why Animal Suffering Matters : Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics.
Publisher Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2009.
Copyright date ©2009.


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Contents Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Reason, Ethics, and Animals -- Part I: Making the Rational Case -- 1. Why Animal Suffering Matters Morally -- 1.1 Differences and morally relevant differences -- 1.2 Examining the differences -- 1.3 A test case: human infants -- 1.4 Reconfiguring the differences and their relevance -- 1.5 Children and animals as special cases -- 1.6 A theological justification -- 1.7 Christ-like suffering -- 1.8 Summary of main points -- 2. How We Minimise Animal Suffering and How We Can Change -- 2.1 Confronting the powers -- 2.2 Moral change and resistance to change -- 2.3 Cultivating and institutionalising critical awareness -- 2.4 Vision and practicalities -- 2.5 Summary of main points -- Part II: Three Practical Critiques -- 3. First Case: Hunting with Dogs -- 3.1 The drawn-out debate -- 3.2 The oddness of the Burns Report -- 3.3 Flawed methodology -- 3.4 Suffering? what suffering? -- 3.5 Addressing the moral issue -- 3.6 Pleasure in suffering -- 3.7 Hunting as anti-social behaviour -- 3.8 The "no control"; control -- 3.9 Licensing versus abolition -- 3.10 Conclusion -- 3.11 Summary of main points -- 4. Second Case: Fur Farming -- 4.1 Increasing legislation against fur farming -- 4.2 Fur farming, harm, and suffering -- 4.3 Animals as a special moral case -- 4.4 Law and the protection of the weak -- 4.5 Absence of moral justification -- 4.6 Answers to objections -- 4.7 Conclusion: no alternative to abolition -- 4.8 Summary of main points -- 5. Third Case: Commercial Sealing -- 5.1 First claim: the hunt is humane -- 5.2 Second claim: seal pups are not killed -- 5.3 Third claim: the hunt is tightly regulated -- 5.4 Fourth claim: hunting is for survival -- 5.5 Seals as economic commodities -- 5.6 The problem of partisan governments -- 5.7 Trade embargoes on seal products -- 5.8 Concluding assessment -- 5.9 Summary of main points.
6. Conclusion: Re-Establishing Animals and Children as a Common Cause, and Six Objections Considered -- 6.1 Singer, infants, and animals -- 6.2 Rejecting institutionalised suffering -- 6.3 Killing, rights, and suffering -- 6.4 Common vulnerabilities -- 6.5 Summary of main points -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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Author Linzey, Andrew.
Subject Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Descript 1 online resource (221 pages)
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Contents Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Reason, Ethics, and Animals -- Part I: Making the Rational Case -- 1. Why Animal Suffering Matters Morally -- 1.1 Differences and morally relevant differences -- 1.2 Examining the differences -- 1.3 A test case: human infants -- 1.4 Reconfiguring the differences and their relevance -- 1.5 Children and animals as special cases -- 1.6 A theological justification -- 1.7 Christ-like suffering -- 1.8 Summary of main points -- 2. How We Minimise Animal Suffering and How We Can Change -- 2.1 Confronting the powers -- 2.2 Moral change and resistance to change -- 2.3 Cultivating and institutionalising critical awareness -- 2.4 Vision and practicalities -- 2.5 Summary of main points -- Part II: Three Practical Critiques -- 3. First Case: Hunting with Dogs -- 3.1 The drawn-out debate -- 3.2 The oddness of the Burns Report -- 3.3 Flawed methodology -- 3.4 Suffering? what suffering? -- 3.5 Addressing the moral issue -- 3.6 Pleasure in suffering -- 3.7 Hunting as anti-social behaviour -- 3.8 The "no control"; control -- 3.9 Licensing versus abolition -- 3.10 Conclusion -- 3.11 Summary of main points -- 4. Second Case: Fur Farming -- 4.1 Increasing legislation against fur farming -- 4.2 Fur farming, harm, and suffering -- 4.3 Animals as a special moral case -- 4.4 Law and the protection of the weak -- 4.5 Absence of moral justification -- 4.6 Answers to objections -- 4.7 Conclusion: no alternative to abolition -- 4.8 Summary of main points -- 5. Third Case: Commercial Sealing -- 5.1 First claim: the hunt is humane -- 5.2 Second claim: seal pups are not killed -- 5.3 Third claim: the hunt is tightly regulated -- 5.4 Fourth claim: hunting is for survival -- 5.5 Seals as economic commodities -- 5.6 The problem of partisan governments -- 5.7 Trade embargoes on seal products -- 5.8 Concluding assessment -- 5.9 Summary of main points.
6. Conclusion: Re-Establishing Animals and Children as a Common Cause, and Six Objections Considered -- 6.1 Singer, infants, and animals -- 6.2 Rejecting institutionalised suffering -- 6.3 Killing, rights, and suffering -- 6.4 Common vulnerabilities -- 6.5 Summary of main points -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Note 3 concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780199701926 (electronic bk.)
Author Linzey, Andrew.
Subject Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Subject Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Descript 1 online resource (221 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
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Contents Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Reason, Ethics, and Animals -- Part I: Making the Rational Case -- 1. Why Animal Suffering Matters Morally -- 1.1 Differences and morally relevant differences -- 1.2 Examining the differences -- 1.3 A test case: human infants -- 1.4 Reconfiguring the differences and their relevance -- 1.5 Children and animals as special cases -- 1.6 A theological justification -- 1.7 Christ-like suffering -- 1.8 Summary of main points -- 2. How We Minimise Animal Suffering and How We Can Change -- 2.1 Confronting the powers -- 2.2 Moral change and resistance to change -- 2.3 Cultivating and institutionalising critical awareness -- 2.4 Vision and practicalities -- 2.5 Summary of main points -- Part II: Three Practical Critiques -- 3. First Case: Hunting with Dogs -- 3.1 The drawn-out debate -- 3.2 The oddness of the Burns Report -- 3.3 Flawed methodology -- 3.4 Suffering? what suffering? -- 3.5 Addressing the moral issue -- 3.6 Pleasure in suffering -- 3.7 Hunting as anti-social behaviour -- 3.8 The "no control"; control -- 3.9 Licensing versus abolition -- 3.10 Conclusion -- 3.11 Summary of main points -- 4. Second Case: Fur Farming -- 4.1 Increasing legislation against fur farming -- 4.2 Fur farming, harm, and suffering -- 4.3 Animals as a special moral case -- 4.4 Law and the protection of the weak -- 4.5 Absence of moral justification -- 4.6 Answers to objections -- 4.7 Conclusion: no alternative to abolition -- 4.8 Summary of main points -- 5. Third Case: Commercial Sealing -- 5.1 First claim: the hunt is humane -- 5.2 Second claim: seal pups are not killed -- 5.3 Third claim: the hunt is tightly regulated -- 5.4 Fourth claim: hunting is for survival -- 5.5 Seals as economic commodities -- 5.6 The problem of partisan governments -- 5.7 Trade embargoes on seal products -- 5.8 Concluding assessment -- 5.9 Summary of main points.
6. Conclusion: Re-Establishing Animals and Children as a Common Cause, and Six Objections Considered -- 6.1 Singer, infants, and animals -- 6.2 Rejecting institutionalised suffering -- 6.3 Killing, rights, and suffering -- 6.4 Common vulnerabilities -- 6.5 Summary of main points -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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