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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... to press, languishing in man-made prisons. Steve Wise has marshaled the facts and presented them at a crucial point in Western history—at the end of a millennium. Let us hope that as we enter the twenty-first century, the new xii Foreword.
... to press, languishing in man-made prisons. Steve Wise has marshaled the facts and presented them at a crucial point in Western history—at the end of a millennium. Let us hope that as we enter the twenty-first century, the new xii Foreword.
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... facts favor them. The Nonhuman Rights Project's first legal hurdle was to establish that chimpanzees have the capacity for any legal rights at all. We could not successfully sue for the liberty of the Chimpanzee Four unless we persuaded ...
... facts favor them. The Nonhuman Rights Project's first legal hurdle was to establish that chimpanzees have the capacity for any legal rights at all. We could not successfully sue for the liberty of the Chimpanzee Four unless we persuaded ...
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... fact that He separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.”7 These beliefs about the purposes of horses and oxen, women and races, ocean tides and pigs, parrots, slaves, and apes may appear to be unconnected ...
... fact that He separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.”7 These beliefs about the purposes of horses and oxen, women and races, ocean tides and pigs, parrots, slaves, and apes may appear to be unconnected ...
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Inhalt
1 | |
9 | |
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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