Animals

A Companion to Environmental Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 416-425

  Singer, Peter ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animals; Environmentalists; Intrinsic value; Racism; Revolution tiumphs

Indexed keywords

EID: 32544434043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470751664.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

References (12)

1. Aristotle (1916) Politics (London: J. M. Dent and Sons). [Probablythe most influential philosopher of the western tradition, and a supporter of a hierarchical view of nature.]
2. Bentham, Jeremy (1948) Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (New York: Hafner). [The founding work of English utilitarianism.]
3. Devall, Bill and Sessions, George (1985) Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered (Salt Lake City, Utah: Gibbs M. Smith). [A more extended presentation of the deep ecology view.]
4. Kheel, Marti (1985) "The liberation of nature: a circular affair," Environmental Ethics 7, no. 2, pp. 135-49. [A feminist view of animal liberation and ecological ethics.]
5. Leopold, Aldo (1949) A Sand County Almanac (New York: Oxford University Press). [An oft-quoted statement of "the land ethic."]
6. Mill, John Stuart (1976) "Whewell on moral philosophy," reprinted in Regan T. and P. Singer, eds, Animal Rights and Human Obligations (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall) pp. 131-2. [Here, the most widelyread of the classic utilitarians makes his views on animals plain.]
7. Naess, Arne and Sessions, George (1984) "Basic principles of deep ecology," Ecophilosophy 6. [A summarystatement bytwo leading proponents of "deep ecology."]
8. Regan, Tom (1983) The Case for Animal Rights (Berkeley: University of California Press). [The leading statement of the claim that animals have rights.]
9. Schweitzer, Albert (1929) Civilization and Ethics, 2nd edn, trans. C. T. Campion (London: A & C Black Ltd). [Here, Schweitzer states his ethic of "reverence for life."]
10. Sidgwick, Henry (1907) The Methods of Ethics, 7th edn (London: Macmillan). [Sidgwick's comprehensive work of moral philosophy, which includes a reference to the position of animals in the utilitarian view.]
11. Taylor, Paul (1986) Respect for Nature (Princeton). [An argument for a radical egalitarianism in our attitude to nature.]
12. Singer, Peter (1990) Animal Liberation, New York Review of Books, New York, 2nd edn. [Sometimes referred to as "the Bible of the animal rights movement," this book argues for equal consideration of the interests of all sentient beings, and shows how our attitudes and practices towards animals fall short of this standard.]