| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Beyond Animal Rights -- Whence Justice? -- Love's Evolution -- Becoming Wise -- Life in a Multspecies Commons -- Wild Justice, Justice as Virtue, and Natural Law -- Domestication -- Including Animals in Building Virtue -- Capability Theory, Just Institutions, and Communitarian Conscience -- Persons in Multispecies Communities -- Conclusions: Towards Wisdom Practices |
| Summary |
There are two driving questions informing this book. The first is where does our moral life come from? The presupposition is that considering morality broadly is inadequate. Instead, different aspects need to be teased apart. It is not sufficient to assume that different virtues are bolted onto a vicious animality, red in tooth and claw. Nature and culture have interlaced histories. By weaving in evolutionary theories and debates on the evolution of compassion, justice, and wisdom, the book shows a richer account of who we are as moral agents. The second driving question concerns our relationships with animals. There is dissatisfaction with animal rights frameworks and an argument instead for a more complex community-based multispecies approach. Hence, rather than extending rights, a more radical approach is a holistic multispecies framework for moral action. This need not weaken individual responsibility. The intention is not to develop a manual of practice, but rather to build towards an alternative philosophically informed approach to theological ethics, including animal ethics. The theological thread weaving through this account is wisdom. Wisdom has many different levels, and in the broadest sense is connected with the flow of life understood in its interconnectedness and sociality. It is profoundly theological and practical. In naming the project the evolution of wisdom a statement is being made about where wisdom may have come from and its future orientation. But justice, compassion, and conscience are not far behind, especially in so far as they are relevant to both individual decision-making and institutions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 02, 2020) |
| Subject |
Human-animal relationships -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Christian ethics.
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Animals -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Animals -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Christian ethics.
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Human-animal relationships -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0191879223 |
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9780191879227 |
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9780192581389 |
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0192581384 |
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9780192581396 |
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0192581392 |
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