Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Being sentiently with others: the shared existential trajectory among humans and nonhumans in Jainism; 2 Animal compassion: what the Jātakas teach Levinas about giving "the bread from one's own mouth"; 3 China's Confucian horses: the place of nonhuman animals in a Confucian world order; 4 Heidegger and Zhuangzi on the nonhuman: towards a transcultural critique of (post)humanism
5 The argument for Ahimṣā in the Anuśāsanaparvan of the Mahābhārata6 Cutting the cat in one: Zen Master Dōgen on the moral status of nonhuman animals; 7 Nonhuman animals and the question of rights from an Asian perspective; 8 Bovine dharma: nonhuman animals and the Swadhyaya Parivar; 9 Snakes in the dark age: human action, karmic retribution, and the possibilities for Hindu animal ethics; Index
Summary
To date, philosophical discussions of animal ethics and Critical Animal Studies have been dominated by Western perspectives and Western thinkers. This book makes a novel contribution to animal ethics in showing the range and richness of ideas offered to these fields by diverse Asian traditions. Asian Perspectives on Animal Ethics is the first of its kind to include the intersection of Asian and European traditions with respect to human and nonhuman relations. Presenting a series of studies focusing on specific Asian traditions, as well as studies that put those traditions in di
