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Animal Dignity : Philosophical Reflections on Non-Human Existence /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Bloomsbury (Firm)
Other Authors: Challenger, Melanie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
Subjects:
Animal welfare > Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Philosophie.
philosophy.
Animals & society.
Ethics & moral philosophy.
Social & political philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Halftitle page
  • Series page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Contributors
  • Foreword Memories of Greybeard Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • PRELUDE I Frogs Simon Rich
  • Beginning with Dignity Melanie Challenger
  • References
  • PART ONE Defining the Concept: What is Dignity?
  • Summary
  • PRELUDE II 33,000 Birds Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Chapter 1 A Place for Animals? Rethinking the History of Human Dignity Remy Debes
  • From the present to the past
  • Four origin stories of dignity
  • The imago Dei platitude
  • Human dignity as human distinctiveness: Finding a place for all animals
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 2 Philosophical Approaches to Dignity, and their Applicability to Non-Human Animals Suzy Killmister
  • The Kantian approach
  • Capabilities approaches
  • Dignity as conferred
  • Notes
  • References
  • PART TWO Approaches to Dignity: What are the Grounds for Animal Dignity?
  • Summary
  • Reference
  • PRELUDE III Ways of Seeing an Octopus Sy Montgomery
  • References
  • Chapter 3 On Standing Harriet Ritvo
  • References
  • Chapter 4 Wild Dignity Lori Gruen
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 5 Dignity in Dogs Alexandra Horowitz
  • Note
  • References
  • Chapter 6 The Heart of the Scorpion Kathleen Dean Moore
  • Chapter 7 'An Old Joy': Ways of Attending to Dignity Deborah Slicer
  • Horses: Lu and Noah
  • Bears
  • Wasps
  • Note
  • References
  • Chapter 8 Dignity in Their World Danielle Celermajer
  • Introduction: Is dignity worth it?
  • Grief
  • The dignity of pigs
  • References
  • PART THREE Forms of Dignity: Are There Separate Cultural Conceptions of Animal Dignity?
  • Summary
  • PRELUDE IV Lead Me into Thy Nest Nelson Bukamba
  • References
  • Chapter 9 Killing Dogs in Zambia: Prospects for Ubuntu Julius Kapembwa
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 10 Let All Beings Be Happy: Dignity and Prana, the Vital Force in Indian Thought Meera Baindur
  • Prana
  • 'Not wringing prana / causing himsa' as dignity
  • Sahacara , the path to a prana -sharing dwelling
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 11 Two-Eyed Seeing: Animal Dignity through Indigenous and Western Lenses Cristina Eisenberg and Michael Paul Nelson
  • Two approaches to animal dignity
  • Dignity: An adaptive choice
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 12 Dignity in Non-Humans: A Theological Perspective Michael J. Reiss
  • Religious understandings about dignity in non-humans
  • Concluding thoughts
  • References
  • PART FOUR Dignity in Practice: What Work Can Animal Dignity Do?
  • Summary
  • References
  • PRELUDE V The Last Safe Habitat Craig Santos Perez
  • Chapter 13 Extending the Capabilities Approach to Non-Human Animals Martha Nussbaum
  • A characteristic form of life
  • A virtual constitution
  • Lists and lives
  • Notes
  • References