Asian Perspectives on Animal Ethics: Rethinking the Nonhuman

ISBN-13: 9780815373780 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 208 str.

Neil Dalal; Chloe Taylor

Opis

This book makes a novel contribution to animal ethics in showing the range and richness of ideas offered to these fields by diverse Asian traditions. Using Asian perspectives to explore crucial ontological, ethical and political questions, contributors analyse humanism and post-humanism in Asian and comparative traditions before focusing on the special ethical relations between humans and particular species of animals.

Spis treści

Introduction Part 1: Compassion and Nonviolence 1. Being Sentiently with Others: The Shared Existential Trajectory among Humans and Nonhumans in Jainism 2. Animal Compassion: What the Jatakas Teach Levinas About Giving ‘the Bread from One’s Own Mouth’ Part 2: Humanism and Posthumanism 3. China’s Confucian Horses: The Place of Nonhuman Animals in a Confucian World Order 4. Heidegger and Zhuangzi on the Nonhuman: Towards a Transcultural Critique of (Post)humanism Part 3: Moral Rights and Status of Nonhuman Animals 5. The Argument for Ahiṃsā in the Anuśāsanaparvan of the Mahābhārata 6. Cutting the Cat in One: Zen Master Dōgen on the Moral Status of Non-Human Animals 7. Non-human animals and the Question of Rights from Asian Perspectives Part 4: Special Relations—Bovine Dharma and Snake Worship 8. Bovine Dharma: Non-human animals in the Swadhyaya Parivar 9. Snakes in the Dark Age: Human Action, Karmic Retribution, and the Possibilities for Hindu Animal Ethics