Can animals be moral?
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Author
Publication
2012 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
64,750 words, Guess
Page Count
259 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25170595M
- ISBN-139780199842001
- OCLC Control Number772711848
- OCLC Control Numbercananimalsbemora0000rowl
- Library of Congress Control Number2011051638
Classifications
- DDC179/.3
- LCCBJ1031 .R69 2012
Description
Building on the ethological evidence, this book engages in meticulous philosophical analysis and argument, and decides that animals can indeed be moral. Animals can act morally in the sense they can act for moral reasons. Or, at least, they are no compelling logical obstacles to supposing that this is the case. This conclusion has important implications not just for our understanding of animals but also of the central concepts we employ in understanding the moral lives of humans, such as motivation, action, and agency.
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