Envisioning a Better Future for Nonhuman Animals: Towards Future Animal Rights Declarations [Hardcover]

This book presents an ethical discussion of the possible future Universal Declarations of (diverse specific nonhuman) Animal Rights. It contributes to a basis for a discussion about (nonhuman) animal rights concerning diverse aspects and quality of (nonhuman) animal life. Doris Schneeberger deals with the interpretation and justification of animal rights, and argues that because (nonhuman) animals are individuals whose lives are intrinsically and inherently valuable, their goods and welfare ought to be protected. She claims that these rights should be protected in possible morally advanced societies of the future.

1 About This Book.- 1.1 How This Book Came into Existence.- 1.2 How This Book Contributes to the Literature.- 1.3 Who Might Find Value in This Book and How to Read This Book.- 1.4 How This Book is Structured.- 2 Preliminary Metareflections.- 2.1 On the Language Used in This Book and on Language and Animal Ethics in General.- 2.2 Metaethics.- 2.3 Ethical Principles.- 3 Historic and Current Discussions about Nonhuman Animal Rights  Welfarism vs. Abolitionism, Utilitarianism, Deontological Positions, Feminist Animal Ethics, and the Political Turn.- 4 Technological Innovation(,) and Moral Progress.- 4.1 From a Speciesist World to a Multispecies Society: How Technological Innovation Might Enable Moral Progress.- 4.2 Four Pillars of Nonhuman Animal Rights: Empathy, Justice, Inherent Value of Life, Knowledge.- 4.3 Moral Outrage and the Holocaust Analogy.- 5 Developing Declarations of Nonhuman Animal Rights.- 5.1 Why Do We Need Declarations of Nonhuman Animal Rights and How Could We Develop Them?.- 5.2 The Historical Emergence of Human Animal Rights.- 5.3 What Animal Ethics Can Learn from Disability Studies.- 5.3.1 The Argument of Species Overlap

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