Animal Justice and Moral Mendacity
I wish to take up some of the sentiments we have towards animals and put them to test in respect of the claims to moral high grounds in Indian thought-traditions vis-à-vis Abrahamic theologies. And I do this by turning the focus in this instanceon a par with issues of caste, gender, minority status...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
[2018]
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Sophia
Year: 2018, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 53-67 |
RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism BL Buddhism NBD Doctrine of Creation NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics TA History |
Further subjects: | B
Dharmaśāstra
B Justice B Moral high ground B Purāṇa B Sentience B Singer B Gandhi B Indian ethics B PETA B Utilitarianism B Deontic animal ethics B India B Paśupati B Animal moralism B Judaism |
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Summary: | I wish to take up some of the sentiments we have towards animals and put them to test in respect of the claims to moral high grounds in Indian thought-traditions vis-à-vis Abrahamic theologies. And I do this by turning the focus in this instanceon a par with issues of caste, gender, minority status, albeit still within the human community ambienceto the question of animals. Which leads me to ask how sophisticated and in-depth is the appreciation of the issues and questions that are currently being debated in contemporary circles? What degree of awareness could we say has been present in the traditionsnot just in some perfunctory, platitudinal, belief-based descriptions or prescriptions, but in actual explanatory and morally sensitized senses? |
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ISSN: | 1873-930X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-018-0652-y |