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      Wild Animal Ethics
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      Wild Animal Ethics

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      Wild Animal Ethics book

      The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering

      Wild Animal Ethics

      DOI link for Wild Animal Ethics

      Wild Animal Ethics book

      The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering
      ByKyle Johannsen
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2020
      eBook Published 30 October 2020
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429296673
      Pages 112
      eBook ISBN 9780429296673
      Subjects Environment and Sustainability, Humanities, Politics & International Relations
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      Johannsen, K. (2020). Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429296673

      ABSTRACT

      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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|10 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 2|18 pages

      What’s So Good About Nature?

      chapter 3|23 pages

      A Collective Obligation to Intervene

      chapter 4|13 pages

      Assessing the Risks of Intervention

      chapter 5|13 pages

      Editing Nature

      chapter 6|17 pages

      Intervention and Animal Rights Advocacy

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