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Ethics, Humans and Other Animals: An Introduction with Readings
Author(s): Rosalind Hursthouse (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 28 Sept. 2000
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415212413
- ISBN-13: 9780415212410
Book Description
This introductory textbook is ideally suited to newcomers to philosophy and ethical problems. Rosalind Hursthouse carefully introduces the three standard approaches in current ethical theory: utilitarianism, rights, and virtue ethics. She links each chapter to readings from key exponents such as Peter Singer and Mary Midgley and asks students to think critically about these readings for themselves. Key features include clear activities and activities, chapter summaries and guides to further reading.
Editorial Reviews
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‘Clear, insightful look at all sides of the argument about our treatment of animals.’ – Sunday Times
‘Clear, insightful look at all sides of the argument about our treatment of animals.’ – Sunday Times
‘Hursthouse’s Ethics, Humans and Other Animals…remains an excellent, self-guided amalgam of primary sources and secondary commentary by an author who represents a virtue-ethics approach to inter-species morality; it is loaded with helpful pedagogical instruments.’ – Ralph Acampora, Hofstra University, Society & Animals
About the Author
Hursthouse Rosalind is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University. She is the author of OnVirtue Ethics and editor of Virtues and Reasons.
