Animals and misanthropy / David E. Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, David E. (David Edward), 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Misanthropy.

Human beings.

Animals (Philosophy).

Animal welfare.

Physical Description:

vi, 146 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

This engaging volume explores and defends the claim that misanthropy is a justified attitude towards humankind in the tight of how human beings both compare with an treat animals. Reflection on differences between humans and animals helps to confirm the misanthropic verdict, while reflection on the moral and other failings manifest in our treatment of animals illuminates what is wrong with this treatment. Human failings, it is argued, are too entrenched to permit optimism about the future of animals, but ways are proposed in which individual people may accommodate to the truth of misanthropy through cultivating mindful, humble and compassionate relationships to animals. Drawing on both Eastern and Western philosophical traditions David F. Cooper offers an original and challenging approach to the complex field of animal ethics. Book jacket.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138295933

1138295930

9781138295940

1138295949

OCLC:

1007086889