"To be sure, nature itself is hardly a Valhalla of peace and harmony. Animals kill other animals regularly, often in ways that we (although not they) would consider cruel. But there is no other creature in nature whose predatory behavior is remotely as deep or as widespread as the behavior we display toward what the philosopher Christine Korsgaard aptly calls "our fellow creatures" in a sensitive book of the same name."

Autorentext

Christine M. Korsgaard is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, where she has taught since 1991. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2015. Before coming to teach at Harvard she held positions at Yale University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago, and visiting positions at Berkeley and UCLA. She is the author of The Sources of Normativity (1996), Creating the Kingdom of Ends (1996), The Constitution of Agency: Essays on Practical Reason and Moral Psychology (2008), and Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity (2009).

Klappentext

Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of our moral relationships to the other animals. She offers challenging answers to such questions as: Are people superior to animals, and does it matter morally if we are? Is it all right for us to eat animals, experiment on them, make them work for us, and keep them as pets?

Inhalt

• Part One: Human Beings and the Other Animals

• 1: Are People More Important than the Other Animals?

• 2: Animal Selves and the Good

• 3: What's Different about Being Human?

• 4: The Case Against Human Superiority

• Part Two: Immanuel Kant and the Animals

• 5: Kant, Marginal Cases, and Moral Standing

• 6: Kant Against the Animals, Part 1: The Indirect Duty View

• 7: Kant Against the Animals, Part 2: Reciprocity and the Grounds of Obligation

• 8: A Kantian Case for Our Obligations to the Other Animals

• 9: The Role of Pleasure and Pain

• Part Three: Consequences

• 10: The Animal Antinomy, Part 1: Creation Ethics

• 11: Species, Communities, and Habitat Loss

• 12: The Animal Antinomy, Part 2: Abolition and Apartheid