Rattling The Cage: Toward Legal Rights For AnimalsHachette+ORM, 08.07.2014 - 384 Seiten Rattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched argument, Wise demonstrates that the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of these apes entitle them to freedom from imprisonment and abuse. |
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... creation is composed of “legal things,” on the other side. The distinction is critical, as only “legal persons” count in a court. Nonhuman animals have always been legal things. To have a legal right, one must be recognized as a legal ...
... creation is composed of “legal things,” on the other side. The distinction is critical, as only “legal persons” count in a court. Nonhuman animals have always been legal things. To have a legal right, one must be recognized as a legal ...
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... created just for human beings. Although philosophy and science have long since recanted, the law has not. This book demands legal personhood for chimpanzees and bonobos. Legal personhood establishes one's legal right to be “recognized ...
... created just for human beings. Although philosophy and science have long since recanted, the law has not. This book demands legal personhood for chimpanzees and bonobos. Legal personhood establishes one's legal right to be “recognized ...
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... created for us to eat. Slaves live for the sake of their masters. The human races were placed on separate continents so they would not mix. Nature has marked Chinese as inferior to whites. Women are made for men. Blacks lie so far below ...
... created for us to eat. Slaves live for the sake of their masters. The human races were placed on separate continents so they would not mix. Nature has marked Chinese as inferior to whites. Women are made for men. Blacks lie so far below ...
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... created beings that they had no rights that whites were bound to respect.6 In 1965, a Virginia judge upheld a statute that forbade marriages between people of different races because “Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow ...
... created beings that they had no rights that whites were bound to respect.6 In 1965, a Virginia judge upheld a statute that forbade marriages between people of different races because “Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow ...
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... created equal. Aristotle thought that one portion of the rational soul was actually used to reason. Greek men, who had it in full, occupied the topmost possible rung. Greek women were a bit colder, slightly deficient in reason and in ...
... created equal. Aristotle thought that one portion of the rational soul was actually used to reason. Greek men, who had it in full, occupied the topmost possible rung. Greek women were a bit colder, slightly deficient in reason and in ...
Inhalt
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3 The Legal Thinghood of Nonhuman Animals | 23 |
4 Border Crossings | 35 |
5 What Are Legal Rights? | 49 |
6 Liberty and Equality | 63 |
7 The Common Law | 89 |
8 Consciousness Taxonomy and Minds | 119 |
9 Seasons of the Mind | 163 |
10 Chimpanzee and Bonobo Minds | 179 |
11 Bending Toward Justice | 239 |
Other Cages Other Peaks | 267 |
Notes | 271 |
About the Author | 339 |
Index | 341 |
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