Asian perspectives on animal ethics : rethinking the nonhuman /: rethinking the nonhuman. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Neil Dalal and Chloë Taylor.
• Editors: Dalal, Neil
• Contents: Compassion and nnonviolence. Being sentiently with others: the shared existential trajectory among humans and nonhumans in Jainism / Anne Vallely -- Animal compassion: what the Jatakas teach Levinas about giving "the bread from one's own mouth" / Katharine Loevy -- Humanism and posthumanism. China's Confucian horses: the place of nonhuman animals in a Confucian world order / Bao-Er -- Heidegger and Zhuangzi on the nonhuman: towards a transcultural critique of (post)humanism / Mario Wenning -- Moral rights and status of nonhuman animals -- The argument for Ahisa in the Anusasanaparvan of the Mahabharata / Christopher Framarin -- Cutting the cat in one: zen master Dogen on the moral status of non-human animals / James McRae -- Non-human animals and the question of rights from Asian perspectives / Christopher Key Chapple -- Special relations, bovine Dharma and snake worship -- Bovine Dharma: non-human animals in the Swadhyaya / Parivar Pankaj Jain -- Snakes in the Dark Age: human action, Karmic retribution, and the possibilities for Hindu animal ethics / Amy Allocco.
• Publisher Details: New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 179/.3; Human-animal relationships -- Asia; Animals -- Symbolic aspects -- Asia; Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Cross-cultural studies; Human-animal relationships -- Cross-cultural studies; Animals -- Religious aspects; Nonviolence -- Religious aspects; PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects; Animals -- Religious aspects; Animals -- Symbolic aspects; Human-animal relationships; Nonviolence -- Religious aspects; Asia; Asien; Electronic books; Cross-cultural studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317749943; 1317749944; 9781315796246; 1315796244; 9781317749950; 1317749952
• Related ISBNs: 9780415729864; 0415729866
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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