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A New Basis for Animal Ethics: Telos and Common Sense

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A New Basis for Animal Ethics: Telos and Common Sense - Rollin, Bernard E, PhD
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This book, the culmination of forty years of theorizing about the moral status of animals, explicates and justifies society's moral obligation to animals in terms of the commonsense metaphysics and ethics of Aristotle's concept of telos. Rollin uses this concept to assert that humans have a responsibility to treat animals ethically. Aristotle used the concept, from the Greek word for "end" or "purpose," as the core explanatory concept for the world we live in. We understand what an animal is by what it does . This is the ...

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A New Basis for Animal Ethics: Telos and Common Sense 2016, University of Missouri Press

ISBN-13: 9780826221018

2nd edition

Hardcover