A New Basis for Animal Ethics: Telos and Common Sense

by Bernard E. Rollin

This book, the culmination of forty years of theorizing about the moral status of animals, explicates and justifies society's moral obligation to animals in terms of the commonsense metaphysics and ethics of Aristotle's concept of telos. Rollin uses this concept to assert that humans have a responsibility to treat animals ethically. Aristotle used the concept, from the Greek word for "end" or "purpose," as the core explanatory concept for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826221017
• ISBN13: 9780826221018
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"