A New Interpretation of Animal Ethics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12419069 |
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| Authors | Nathan Nobis (0000-0001-9004-0062, Professor of Philosophy, Morehouse College Atlanta, GA USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 493-498 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-08 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Society and Animals (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-1119 • E-ISSN: 1568-5306 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15685306-bja10085 |
| OpenAlex | W4226399479 |
| Language | EN |
Christine Korsgaard, Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to Other Animals. Oxford University Press, 2018. 267 pp.Kant’s Ethics and Animals: The Standard InterpretationThe arguably most influential ways to approaching ethical questions, at least in Western societies, are based on two rival ethical perspectives: utilitarianism (developed by British philosophers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, and others in the 1700s and 1800s) and the ethics of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804).Utilitarianism requires us to increase overall happiness and decrease pain and misery, as much as we can. Bentham offered the famous lines that, in determining how to do decide
Animal ethics · Creatures · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethical theory · Happiness · Interpretation (philosophy · Jeremy bentham · Mill · Natural (archaeology · Political science · Sociology · Utilitarianism · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
| Highly cited | No |
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