Asian Perspectives on Animal Ethics (eBook, ePUB)

Rethinking the Nonhuman
Redaktion: Dalal, Neil; Taylor, Chloë

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book makes a novel contribution to animal ethics in showing the range and richness of ideas offered to these fields by diverse Asian traditions. Using Asian perspectives to explore crucial ontological, ethical and political questions, contributors analyse humanism and post-humanism in Asian and comparative traditions before focusing on the special ethical relations between humans and particular species of animals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317749943
• Artikelnr.: 40831227

Autorenporträt

Neil Dalal is Assistant Professor of South Asian Philosophy and Religious Thought in the Philosophy Department and Religious Studies Program at the University of Alberta, Canada. He holds a PhD from the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Chloë Taylor is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. She has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Tomlinson postdoctoral fellow in Philosophy at McGill University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Compassion and Nonviolence 1. Being Sentiently with Others: The Shared Existential Trajectory among Humans and Nonhumans in Jainism 2. Animal Compassion: What the Jatakas Teach Levinas About Giving 'the Bread from One's Own Mouth' Part 2: Humanism and Posthumanism 3. China's Confucian Horses: The Place of Nonhuman Animals in a Confucian World Order 4. Heidegger and Zhuangzi on the Nonhuman: Towards a Transcultural Critique of (Post)humanism Part 3: Moral Rights and Status of Nonhuman Animals 5. The Argument for Ahi
s
in the Anü
sanaparvan of the Mah
bh
rata 6. Cutting the Cat in One: Zen Master D
gen on the Moral Status of Non-Human Animals 7. Non-human animals and the Question of Rights from Asian Perspectives Part 4: Special Relations-Bovine Dharma and Snake Worship 8. Bovine Dharma: Non-human animals in the Swadhyaya Parivar 9. Snakes in the Dark Age: Human Action, Karmic Retribution, and the Possibilities for Hindu Animal Ethics