Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology

Book Overview

This comprehensive and diverse anthology, the only one of its kind, illuminates the complex evolution of moral thought regarding animals and includes writings from ancient Greece to the present. Animal Rights reveals the ways in which a variety of thinkers have addressed such issues as our ethical responsibilities for the welfare of animals, whether animals have rights, and what it means to be human.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231134215
• ISBN13: 9780231134217
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher