An Ape Ethic and the Question of Personhood

by Gregory F. Tague Professor

Gregory F. Tague's An Ape Ethic and the Question of Personhood argues that great apes are moral individuals because they engage in a land ethic as ecosystem engineers to generate ecologically sustainable biomes for themselves and other species. Tague shows that we need to recognize apes as eco-engineers in order to save them and their habitats, and that in so doing, we will ultimately save earth's biosphere. The book draws on extensive empirical research...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793619700
• ISBN13: 9781793619709
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"