The Moral Animal

Author : Robert Wright
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995-08-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780679763994

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One of the most provocative science books ever published—"a feast of great thinking and writing about the most profound issues there are" (The New York Times Book Review). "Fiercely intelligent, beautifully written and engrossingly original." —The New York Times Book Review Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animaled one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics—as well as their implications for our moral codes and public policies. Illustrations.

Author : Robert Wright
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307772749

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One of the most provocative science books ever published—"a feast of great thinking and writing about the most profound issues there are" (The New York Times Book Review). "Fiercely intelligent, beautifully written and engrossingly original." —The New York Times Book Review Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animaled one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics—as well as their implications for our moral codes and public policies. Illustrations.

Author : Robert Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Behavior evolution
ISBN : 0679407731

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Presents the latest findings in the emerging field of evolutionary psychology, which views human behavior in light of Darwinian theory, unveiling the unconscious strategies that shape our romantic choices, familial feelings, friendships, and office politics.

Author : Marc Bekoff,Jessica Pierce
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226041667

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Wild Justice by Marc Bekoff,Jessica Pierce Pdf

Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are. Yet what are we to make of a female gorilla in a German zoo who spent days mourning the death of her baby? Or a wild female elephant who cared for a younger one after she was injured by a rambunctious teenage male? Or a rat who refused to push a lever for food when he saw that doing so caused another rat to be shocked? Aren’t these clear signs that animals have recognizable emotions and moral intelligence? With Wild Justice Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce unequivocally answer yes. Marrying years of behavioral and cognitive research with compelling and moving anecdotes, Bekoff and Pierce reveal that animals exhibit a broad repertoire of moral behaviors, including fairness, empathy, trust, and reciprocity. Underlying these behaviors is a complex and nuanced range of emotions, backed by a high degree of intelligence and surprising behavioral flexibility. Animals, in short, are incredibly adept social beings, relying on rules of conduct to navigate intricate social networks that are essential to their survival. Ultimately, Bekoff and Pierce draw the astonishing conclusion that there is no moral gap between humans and other species: morality is an evolved trait that we unquestionably share with other social mammals. Sure to be controversial, Wild Justice offers not just cutting-edge science, but a provocative call to rethink our relationship with—and our responsibilities toward—our fellow animals.

Author : Robert Wright
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995-08-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780679763994

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The Moral Animal by Robert Wright Pdf

One of the most provocative science books ever published—"a feast of great thinking and writing about the most profound issues there are" (The New York Times Book Review). "Fiercely intelligent, beautifully written and engrossingly original." —The New York Times Book Review Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animaled one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics—as well as their implications for our moral codes and public policies. Illustrations.

Author : Mark Rowlands
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199986712

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Can Animals Be Moral? by Mark Rowlands Pdf

From eye-witness accounts of elephants apparently mourning the death of family members to an experiment that showed that hungry rhesus monkeys would not take food if doing so gave another monkey an electric shock, there is much evidence of animals displaying what seem to be moral feelings. But despite such suggestive evidence, philosophers steadfastly deny that animals can act morally, and for reasons that virtually everyone has found convincing. In Can Animals be Moral?, philosopher Mark Rowlands examines the reasoning of philosophers and scientists on this question--ranging from Aristotle and Kant to Hume and Darwin--and reveals that their arguments fall far short of compelling. The basic argument against moral behavior in animals is that humans have capabilities that animals lack. We can reflect on our motivations, formulate abstract principles that allow that allow us to judge right from wrong. For an actor to be moral, he or she must be able scrutinize their motivations and actions. No animal can do these things--no animal is moral. Rowland naturally agrees that humans possess a moral consciousness that no animal can rival, but he argues that it is not necessary for an individual to have the ability to reflect on his or her motives to be moral. Animals can't do all that we can do, but they can act on the basis of some moral reasons--basic moral reasons involving concern for others. And when they do this, they are doing just what we do when we act on the basis of these reasons: They are acting morally.

Author : Mylan Engel,Gary Lynn Comstock
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498531917

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The Moral Rights of Animals by Mylan Engel,Gary Lynn Comstock Pdf

Edited by Mylan Engel Jr. and Gary Lynn Comstock, this book employs different ethical lenses, including classical deontology, libertarianism, commonsense morality, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and the capabilities approach, to explore the philosophical basis for the strong animal rights view, which holds that animals have moral rights equal in strength to the rights of humans, while also addressing what are undoubtedly the most serious challenges to the strong animal rights stance, including the challenges posed by rights nihilism, the “kind” argument against animal rights, the problem of predation, and the comparative value of lives. In addition, contributors explore the practical import of animal rights both from a social policy standpoint and from the standpoint of personal ethical decisions concerning what to eat and whether to hunt animals. Unlike other volumes on animal rights, which focus primarily on the legal rights of animals, and unlike other anthologies on animal ethics, which tend to cover a wide variety of topics but only devote a few articles to each topic, this volume focuses exclusively on the question of whether animals have moral rights and the practical import of such rights. The Moral Rights of Animals will be an indispensable resource for scholars, teachers, and students in the fields of animal ethics, applied ethics, ethical theory, and human-animal studies, as well as animal rights advocates and policy makers interested in improving the treatment of animals.

Author : Stephen R. L. Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015008350244

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The Moral Status of Animals by Stephen R. L. Clark Pdf

Author : Gary Steiner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Animal psychology
ISBN : 9780231142342

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Animals and the Moral Community by Gary Steiner Pdf

Gary Steiner argues that ethologists and philosophers in the analytic and continental traditions have largely failed to advance an adequate explanation of animal behavior. Critically engaging the positions of Marc Hauser, Daniel Dennett, Donald Davidson, John Searle, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer, among others, Steiner shows how the Western philosophical tradition has forced animals into human experiential categories in order to make sense of their cognitive abilities and moral status and how desperately we need a new approach to animal rights. Steiner rejects the traditional assumption that a lack of formal rationality confers an inferior moral status on animals vis-a-vis human beings. Instead, he offers an associationist view of animal cognition in which animals grasp and adapt to their environments without employing concepts or intentionality. Steiner challenges the standard assumption of liberal individualism according to which humans have no obligations of justice toward animals. Instead, he advocates a "cosmic holism" that attributes a moral status to animals equivalent to that of people. Arguing for a relationship of justice between humans and nature, Steiner emphasizes our kinship with animals and the fundamental moral obligations entailed by this kinship.

Author : Robert Wright
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780375727818

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Nonzero by Robert Wright Pdf

In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next. In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a basic pattern. Organisms and human societies alike have grown more complex by mastering the challenges of internal cooperation. Wright's narrative ranges from fossilized bacteria to vampire bats, from stone-age villages to the World Trade Organization, uncovering such surprises as the benefits of barbarian hordes and the useful stability of feudalism. Here is history endowed with moral significance–a way of looking at our biological and cultural evolution that suggests, refreshingly, that human morality has improved over time, and that our instinct to discover meaning may itself serve a higher purpose. Insightful, witty, profound, Nonzero offers breathtaking implications for what we believe and how we adapt to technology's ongoing transformation of the world.

Author : Dale Peterson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781608193462

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The Moral Lives of Animals by Dale Peterson Pdf

Examines the moral behavior observed in animals and argues that human beings are not the only species to live by the principles of cooperation, kindness, and empathy.

Author : T. J. Kasperbauer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780190695811

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Subhuman by T. J. Kasperbauer Pdf

How do we think about animals? How do we decide what they deserve and how we ought to treat them? 'Subhuman' takes an interdisciplinary approach to these questions, drawing from research in philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, law, history, sociology, economics, and anthropology. 'Subhuman' argues that our attitudes to nonhuman animals, both positive and negative, largely arise from our need to compare ourselves to them.

Author : Mark H Bernstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137315250

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The Moral Equality of Humans and Animals by Mark H Bernstein Pdf

Received opinion has it that humans are morally superior to non-human animals; human interests matter more than the like interests of animals and the value of human lives is alleged to be greater than the value of nonhuman animal lives. Since this belief causes mayhem and murder, its de-mythologizing requires urgent attention.

Author : QuickRead,Alyssa Burnette
Publisher : QuickRead.com
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Summary of The Moral Animal by Robert Wright by QuickRead,Alyssa Burnette Pdf

Learn how evolutionary psychology can explain human behavior. Human beings have often said that our moral compass is what sets us apart from other animals. We are humans because we know we have a conscience and an ability to identify the “morally right” thing to do. The Moral Animal (1994) expounds on this belief by unpacking the tenets of evolutionary psychology. Do you want more free book summaries like this? Download our app for free at https://www.QuickRead.com/App and get access to hundreds of free book and audiobook summaries. DISCLAIMER: This book summary is meant as a summary and an analysis and not a replacement for the original work. If you like this summary please consider purchasing the original book to get the full experience as the original author intended it to be. If you are the original author of any book published on QuickRead and want us to remove it, please contact us at [email protected].

Author : Gary L. Francione
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231553209

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Why Veganism Matters by Gary L. Francione Pdf

Most people care about animals, but only a tiny fraction are vegan. The rest often think of veganism as an extreme position. They certainly do not believe that they have a moral obligation to become vegan. Gary L. Francione—the leading and most provocative scholar of animal rights theory and law—demonstrates that veganism is a moral imperative and a matter of justice. He shows that there is a contradiction in thinking that animals matter morally if one is also not vegan, and he explains why this belief should logically lead all who hold it to veganism. Francione dismantles the conventional wisdom that it is acceptable to use and kill animals as long as we do so “humanely.” He argues that if animals matter morally, they must have the right not to be used as property. That means that we cannot eat them, wear them, use them, or otherwise treat them as resources or commodities. Why Veganism Matters presents the case for the personhood of nonhuman animals and for veganism in a clear and accessible way that does not require any philosophical or legal background. This book offers a persuasive and powerful argument for all readers who care about animals but are not sure whether they have a moral obligation to be vegan.