Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering by Johannsen, Kyle

Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780367275686)

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Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering by Johannsen, Kyle

Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering

$170.00
Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering by Johannsen, Kyle

Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering

$170.00
Format: Hardcover
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Though many ethicists have the intuition that we should leave nature alone, Kyle Johannsen argues that we have a duty to research safe ways of providing large-scale assistance to wild animals. Using concepts from moral and political philosophy to analyze the issue of wild animal suffering (WAS), Johannsen explores how a collective, institutional obligation to assist wild animals should be understood. He claims that with enough research, genetic editing may one day give us the power to safely intervene without perpetually interfering with wild animals' liberties.

Questions addressed include:

  • In what way is nature valuable and is intervention compatible with that value?
  • Is intervention a requirement of justice?
  • What are the implications of WAS for animal rights advocacy? What types of intervention are promising?

Expertly moving the debate about human relations with wild animals beyond its traditional confines, Wild Animal Ethics is essential reading for students and scholars of political philosophy and political theory studying animal ethics, environmental ethics, and environmental philosophy.

Author: Kyle Johannsen
ISBN-10: 0367275686
ISBN-13: 9780367275686
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2020
Pages: 100
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.50d

By Kyle Johannsen
By Kyle Johannsen
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Kyle Johannsen is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Queen's University, Kingston. He is primarily interested in social and political philosophy, and in animal and environmental ethics. His first monograph - A Conceptual Investigation of Justice - was published with Routledge in 2018, and his work has appeared in journals such as Dialogue, Environmental Values, Ethical Perspectives, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, and Res Publica.

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