Animal Lives Matter: The Continuing Quest for Justice

Animal Lives Matter: The Continuing Quest for Justice provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal, philosophical, and ethical aspects of animal rights. It argues that the subject extends beyond the matter of our obligations towards animals, to include our wider responsibilities for protecting the environment. Drawing on numerous moral, political, legal, religious, and philosophical theories including utilitarianism, deontology, rights theory, social contractarianism, and the capabilities approach, the author meticulously examines the questions of sentience, speciesism, personhood, and human exceptionalism. Lucid, nuanced, and academically rigorous, this book will be an essential resource for scholars of law, politics, philosophy, ethics, as well as policy makers and the general reader.

Table of Contents: 
1. Introduction 2. Ethical foundations 3. Animal rights 4. Rights resistance 5. Human rights 6. Utilitarianism vs deontology 7. Welfarism 8. Abolitionism 9. Capabilities 10. Contractarianism and contractualism 11. Citizenship 12. The law 13. Conclusion

1st Edition. 194 Pages. Get access to the individual chapters at Taylor & Francis eBooks.

ISBN: Paperback: 9781032700847, Hardback: 9781032573120, eBook: 9781032702575

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