Nicholas D. Kristof in today’s New York Times op-ed article “Humanity Even for Nonhumans,” offers a capsule summary of the contemporary Animal Rights Movement—its seeming origin with the work of ethicist Peter Singer in the early 1970s to its recent impulses, such as Spain granting basic legal rights to apes. Mr. Kristof concludes: “animal rights are now firmly on the mainstream ethical agenda.”
In my estimation Animal Rights, with the moral imperative not to inflict suffering and expanding into a Reverence for All Life, is a worthy meditation on the human condition. Is a human being of (embedded in) Nature? Or is a human being above (transcendent of) Nature?
My quote collection, In Praise of Animals, through a variety of voices explores the relationship between humankind and the rest of the animal kingdom, including the ethical dimension. To help the reader navigate the collection I’ve put together a reader's guide.
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