The Animal Question: Why Non-Human Animals Deserve Human Rights

by Paola Cavalieri

Book Overview

How much do animals matter--morally? Can we keep considering them as second class beings, to be used merely for our benefit? Or, should we offer them some form of moral egalitarianism? Inserting itself into the passionate debate over animal rights, this fascinating, provocative work by renowned scholar Paola Cavalieri advances a radical proposal: that we extend basic human rights to the nonhuman animals we currently treat as "things."

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195143809
• ISBN13: 9780195143805
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.1"