Animal Liberation
by Peter Singer
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Author: Peter SingerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-12-01
ISBN: 0060011572
Number of pages: 324
Publisher: Ecco Press
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Summary: 4 Stars
I predict this: one day our species will wonder why it took so long to adopt the view espoused by Singer today. The basis of morality is not rationality, as so many suppose. It is our ability to suffer, to have consciousness, or the loss of it (death). The basis of moral agency is rationality. This confusion has led people (including some of the reviewers here) to believe that only rational people have rights. As articulated so capably by Michael Berumen in Do No Evil: Ethics with Applications to Economic Theory and Business, it is the conjoining of our rational prohibitions (i.e., no one desires pain or death for their own sake...only for a reason) and impartiality (no bias in application) that enables us to extend our own egocentric prohibitions to others...including other animals, who most certainly suffer. I think Michael Berumen's book is even more compelling than Singer's, but the latter acknowledges his debt to Singer in understanding the nature of suffering.
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