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Brute souls, happy beasts, and evolution : the historical status of animals  Cover Image Book Book

Brute souls, happy beasts, and evolution : the historical status of animals

Preece, Rod 1939- (author.).

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  • ISBN: 0774811579
  • ISBN: 0774811560
  • ISBN: 9780774811576
  • ISBN: 9780774811569
  • Physical Description: xiii, 480 pages ; 24 cm.
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  • Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia : UBC Press, 2005.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-469) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 1. In quest of the soul -- 2. Peripatetic souls -- 3. natural history of animal souls -- 4. Return to nature : the golden age and the happy beast -- 5. Theriophily redivivus -- 6. Symbiosis : animals as means and as ends -- 7. Evolution, chain, and categorical imperative -- 8. Kinship and evolution : the Darwinian myth -- 9. moral status of animals : practical judgment, reasonable partiality, and species needs.
Subject: Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History
Animals and civilization -- History
Human-animal relationships
Animal welfare -- History
Animal welfare -- Philosophy -- History

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.

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Prince Rupert Library 179.3 Pree (Text) 33294001555762 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -

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