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What We Owe to Nonhuman Animals
The Historical Pretensions of Reason and the Ideal of Felt Kinship
Taschenbuch von Gary Steiner
Sprache: Englisch

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This book strongly challenges the Western philosophical tradition's assertion that humans are superior to nonhuman animals. It provides a full and direct moral status of nonhuman animals.

This book strongly challenges the Western philosophical tradition's assertion that humans are superior to nonhuman animals. It provides a full and direct moral status of nonhuman animals.

Über den Autor

Gary Steiner is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Bucknell University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter One: Background Ideals of Living

1. A Counterintuitive Idea

2. Background Ideals of Living in the Philosophical Tradition

3. Anthropocentric Implications of Some Contemporary Approaches

4. Anthropocentric and Non-Anthropocentric Background Ideals of Living

Chapter Two: The Essential Role and Pitfalls of Reason in Moral Judgment

1. Background Ideals of Living and Our Basic Understanding of Reason

2. Two Early Exponents of Anthropocentric Rationality: Aristotle and Seneca

3. The Enlightenment's Chief Exponent of Anthropocentric Rationality: Kant

4. Questioning the Traditional Commitment to the Primacy of Reason

Chapter Three: Historical Idealism and the Process of Critical Reflection

1. Rationality: Rethink or Reject?

2. Rorty's Challenge to Reason and Criteria

3. The Ideal of Critical Detachment Revisited

4. Ortega's Turn to Historical Reason

5. Miller's Actualism and the Problem of Universals

6. A Concluding Thought

Chapter Four: The Affective Dimension of Moral Commitment

1. Background Ideals of Living and the Putative Autonomy of Reason

2. A Positive Path Beyond the Limits of Reason?

3. Reclaiming a Guiding Place for the Emotions

4. Pre-Predicative Meaning and Affective Engagement

5. The Moral Community is Neither Exclusively Nor Primarily Human

Chapter Five: Felt Kinship: The Essential Tension Between Local and Global Commitments

1. The Power and Essential Limits of Reason

2. The Power and Essential Limits of Feeling or Emotion

3. Toward a Dialectical Conception of the Reason-Emotion Dichotomy

4. Toward a Well-Tempered Humanism

Bibliography

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 270
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781032545851
ISBN-10: 1032545852
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Steiner, Gary
Hersteller: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Maße: 231 x 155 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Gary Steiner
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.09.2023
Gewicht: 0,44 kg
preigu-id: 126944037
Über den Autor

Gary Steiner is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Bucknell University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter One: Background Ideals of Living

1. A Counterintuitive Idea

2. Background Ideals of Living in the Philosophical Tradition

3. Anthropocentric Implications of Some Contemporary Approaches

4. Anthropocentric and Non-Anthropocentric Background Ideals of Living

Chapter Two: The Essential Role and Pitfalls of Reason in Moral Judgment

1. Background Ideals of Living and Our Basic Understanding of Reason

2. Two Early Exponents of Anthropocentric Rationality: Aristotle and Seneca

3. The Enlightenment's Chief Exponent of Anthropocentric Rationality: Kant

4. Questioning the Traditional Commitment to the Primacy of Reason

Chapter Three: Historical Idealism and the Process of Critical Reflection

1. Rationality: Rethink or Reject?

2. Rorty's Challenge to Reason and Criteria

3. The Ideal of Critical Detachment Revisited

4. Ortega's Turn to Historical Reason

5. Miller's Actualism and the Problem of Universals

6. A Concluding Thought

Chapter Four: The Affective Dimension of Moral Commitment

1. Background Ideals of Living and the Putative Autonomy of Reason

2. A Positive Path Beyond the Limits of Reason?

3. Reclaiming a Guiding Place for the Emotions

4. Pre-Predicative Meaning and Affective Engagement

5. The Moral Community is Neither Exclusively Nor Primarily Human

Chapter Five: Felt Kinship: The Essential Tension Between Local and Global Commitments

1. The Power and Essential Limits of Reason

2. The Power and Essential Limits of Feeling or Emotion

3. Toward a Dialectical Conception of the Reason-Emotion Dichotomy

4. Toward a Well-Tempered Humanism

Bibliography

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 270
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781032545851
ISBN-10: 1032545852
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Steiner, Gary
Hersteller: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Maße: 231 x 155 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Gary Steiner
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.09.2023
Gewicht: 0,44 kg
preigu-id: 126944037
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