Nasty, brutish, and short: The illiberal intuition that animals don't count

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 265-277

  Taylor, Angus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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EID: 3042985374     PISSN: 00225363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00162897     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Jan Narveson, speaking on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio program "Uneasy Dominion," 4 February 1991 (Toronto: CBC Ideas Transcripts, ID 9140, p. 19).
2. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981), p. 186.
3. Jan Narveson, The Libertarian Idea (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988), p. 8. The italics are Narveson's.
4. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1960), p. 289.
5. John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975), p. 341.
6. Tom Regan, "Ethical Vegetarianism and Commercial Animal Farming," in Joram Graf Haber (ed.), Doing and Being (New York: Macmillan, 1993), p. 109. For the full argument, see Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983).
7. Tom Regan, "Ethical Vegetarianism and Commercial Animal Farming," in Joram Graf Haber (ed.), Doing and Being (New York: Macmillan, 1993), p. 109. For the full argument, see Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983).
8. Michael Tooley, Abortion and Infanticide (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), esp. pp. 300-301, 412.
9. See Paul W. Taylor, Respect for Nature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), pp. 119-129, and Warwick Fox, Toward a Transpersonal Ecology (Boston: Shambhala, 1990), pp. 165-176.
10. See Paul W. Taylor, Respect for Nature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), pp. 119-129, and Warwick Fox, Toward a Transpersonal Ecology (Boston: Shambhala, 1990), pp. 165-176.
11. See Bill Devall and George Sessions, Deep Ecology (Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1985).
12. Mary Midgley, "Duties Concerning Islands," in Robert Elliot and Arran Gare (eds.), Environmental Philosophy (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1983).
13. On the problems raised by this question, see Tom Regan, "Does Environmental Ethics Rest on a Mistake?," The Monist, 75.2 (April 1992): 161-182.
14. Locke, Two Treatises of Government, p. 319.