Animals and Misanthropy
Taylor & Francis

Animals and Misanthropy

Edition: 1st Edition
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy
ISBN13: 9781138295940
Published: 07 Feb 2018

Format - Paperback / softback
By David Cooper

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Animals and Misanthropy

Regular price A$33.59
Sale price A$33.59 Regular price A$41.99
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This engaging volume explores and defends the claim that misanthropy is a justified attitude towards humankind in the light of how human beings both compare with and treat animals. Reflection on differences between humans and animals helps to confirm the misanthropic verdict, while reflection on the moral and other failings manifest in our treatment of animals illuminates what is wrong with this treatment. Human failings, it is argued, are too entrenched to permit optimism about the future of animals, but ways are proposed in which individual people may accommodate to the truth of misanthropy through cultivating mindful, humble and compassionate relationships to animals. Drawing on both Eastern and Western philosophical traditions David E. Cooper offers an original and challenging approach to the complex field of animal ethics.

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