Asian perspectives on animal ethics : rethinking the nonhuman /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Dalal, Neil (Editor), Taylor, Chloe (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
Series:	Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ; 12.
Subjects:	Human-animal relationships > Asia. Animals > Symbolic aspects > Asia. Animal welfare > Moral and ethical aspects > Cross-cultural studies. Human-animal relationships > Cross-cultural studies. Animals > Religious aspects. Nonviolence > Religious aspects. Animal Rights. Cross-Cultural Comparison. Religious Philosophies. Ethics. Asia.

Table of Contents:

Being sentiently with others: the shared existential trajectory among humans and nonhumans in Jainism
Animal compassion: what the Jatakas teach Levinas about giving "the bread from one's own mouth"
Humanism and posthumanism. China's Confucian horses: the place of nonhuman animals in a Confucian world order
Heidegger and Zhuangzi on the nonhuman: towards a transcultural critique of (post)humanism
The argument for Ahisa in the Anusasanaparvan of the Mahabharata
Cutting the cat in one: zen master Dogen on the moral status of non-human animals
Non-human animals and the question of rights from Asian perspectives
Bovine Dharma: non-human animals in the Swadhyaya
Snakes in the Dark Age: human action, Karmic retribution, and the possibilities for Hindu animal ethics.