The great ape project equality beyond humanity
Who are the Great Apes? They are chimpanzees, gorillas, orang-utans, and, according to co-editors Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer, and a distinguished group of international contributors, they are persons. Yes, persons, capable of reflections, emotions, joy, as well as, all too often, pain. On the...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York
St. Martin's Press
1994
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| Ausgabe: | 1. U.S. ed. |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Who are the Great Apes? They are chimpanzees, gorillas, orang-utans, and, according to co-editors Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer, and a distinguished group of international contributors, they are persons. Yes, persons, capable of reflections, emotions, joy, as well as, all too often, pain. On the other hand, as one of this book's contributors, Richard Dawkins, has written, while we admit that we are like apes, "we seldom realize that we are apes." With such assertions throughout, it is no wonder that The Great Ape Project has been embroiled in controversy even before its American publication Beginning with the "Declaration on Great Apes," a scientific and moral call to arms modeled after the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, The Great Ape Project, both as a book and as a political manifesto, unequivocally states its primary goals: to ensure "The Right to Life," "The Protection of Individual Liberty," and "The Prohibition of Torture" to every nonhuman great ape |
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| Beschreibung: | VIII, 312 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0312104731 0-312-10473-1 |