Fellow Creatures, Our Obligations to the Other Animals by Korsgaard, Christine M. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Dedication page Contents Preface Part I. Human Beings and the Other Animals

1. Are People More Important than the Other Animals?

1.1 Introduction 1.2 Reasons to Treat People and Animals Differently 1.3 Tethered Values 1.4 Why Tethered Values and Superior Importance Are (Almost) Incompatible

2. Animal Selves and the Good

2.1 The Origin of the Good 2.2 Objections 2.3 Self-Consciousness and the Self 2.4 Active and Passive Self-Constitution

3. What’s Different about Being Human?

3.1 Introduction 3.2 Rational and Instinctive Minds 3.3 Evaluating Reasons and Evaluating the Self 3.4 Species Being 3.5 Ethics and Science

4. The Case against Human Superiority

4.1 Introduction 4.2 Does Morality Make Humans Superior to the Other Animals? 4.3 The Implications of Cognitive Sophistication 4.4 Are Humans Better Off than the Other Animals? 4.5 Conclusion

Part II. Immanuel Kant and theAnimals

5. Kant, Marginal Cases, and Moral Standing

5.1 Human Beings as Ends in Themselves 5.2 Against the Argument from Marginal Cases 5.3 Atemporal Creatures 5.4 What Is Moral Standing Anyway?

6. Kant against the Animals, Part 1: The Indirect Duty View

6.1 Animals as Mere Means 6.2 How Kant Thinks We Ought to Treat Animals 6.3 An Incoherent Attitude 6.4 The Problem of the Moral Filter 6.5 Desert and the Worthiness to Be Happy 6.6 Treated Like Animals

7. Kant against the Animals, Part 2: Reciprocity and the Grounds of Obligation

7.1 Introduction 7.2 Reciprocity Arguments 7.3 Kant’s Account of Moral Choice 7.4 Kant on Reciprocal Legislation 7.5 The Universalization Test and the Treatment of Animals

8. A Kantian Case for Our Obligations to the Other Animals

8.1 Introduction 8.2 Kant’s Copernican Revolution 8.3 The Concept of an End in Itself 8.4 Valuing Ourselves as Ends in Ourselves 8.5 Valuing Animals as Ends in Themselves 8.6 Morality as Our Way of Being Animals 8.7 Different Moral Relations to People and Animals 8.8 Trouble in the Kingdom of Ends

9. The Role of Pleasure and Pain

9.1 Rapprochement with Utilitarianism? 9.2 Aggregation and Its Implications 9.3 The Nature of Pleasure and Pain 9.4 The Place of Pleasure and Pain in the Final Good 9.5 Matters of Life and Death 9.6 Kantian Naturalism

Part III. Consequences

10. The Animal Antinomy, Part 1: Creation Ethics

10.1 Eliminating Predation 10.2 Abolitionism 10.3 The Animal Antinomy 10.4 Creation Ethics 10.5 Individuals, Groups, and Species

11. Species, Communities, and Habitat Loss

11.1 The Value of Species 11.2 The Good of a Species and the Good of Its Members 11.3 What Is a Species? 11.4 Does a Species Have a Good? 11.5 Species as Generic Organisms 11.6 How to Care about Species 11.7 Eliminating Predation Again 11.8 Restoring Habitat 11.9 Should Humans Go Extinct?

12. The Animal Antinomy, Part 2: Abolition and Apartheid

12.1 Reorganizing Nature 12.2 How to Treat Animals as Ends in Themselves 12.3 Eating Animals 12.4 Working Animals and Animals in the Military 12.5 The Use of Animals in Scientific Experiments 12.6 Companion Animals

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