Author

Publication

2000 - Palgrave Macmillan

Language

English

Word Count

50,500 words, Guess

Page Count

202 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL10387371M
  • ISBN-139780312217204
  • ISBN-10031221720X
  • OCLC Control Number39013835
  • Library of Congress Control Number98023544
and 2 more
  • LibraryThing204471
  • Goodreads310815

Classifications

  • LCCHV4708 .R69 1998
  • DDC179/.3

Description

"This book defends the novel position that certain ideas deriving from the social contract tradition in philosophy - the tradition which sees moral rights as deriving from implicit agreements between individuals - can be used to justify the claim that our obligations to them are far more substantial than we commonly think. Critiquing the rival accounts of writers such as Peter Singer and Tom Regan, this groundbreaking book shows how an influential form of the social contact idea can be used to make sense of and justify the concept of animal rights."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Animal RightsHardcoverPalgrave Macmillan2000

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