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Building on the ethological evidence, this book engages in meticulous philosophical analysis and argument, and decides that animals can indeed be moral. Animals can act morally in the sense they can act for moral reasons. Or, at least, they are no compelling logical obstacles to supposing that this...

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Main Author: Rowlands, Mark
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Ethics > History.
Animals (Philosophy)
Emotions in animals.
Animal psychology.
Morale > Histoire.
Animaux (Philosophie)
Émotions chez les animaux.
Animaux > Psychologie.
Ethics.
Electronic books.
E-books.
E-reference.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Building on the ethological evidence, this book engages in meticulous philosophical analysis and argument, and decides that animals can indeed be moral. Animals can act morally in the sense they can act for moral reasons. Or, at least, they are no compelling logical obstacles to supposing that this is the case. This conclusion has important implications not just for our understanding of animals but also of the central concepts we employ in understanding the moral lives of humans, such as motivation, action, and agency.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780199979844
0199979847