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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... judge, and every legislator should read this book.” —Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation “In good lawyerly fashion, Wise offers a wide range of arguments on behalf of animal rights . . . an impassioned, fascinating, and in many ...
... judge, and every legislator should read this book.” —Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation “In good lawyerly fashion, Wise offers a wide range of arguments on behalf of animal rights . . . an impassioned, fascinating, and in many ...
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... judges and law professors—indeed everyone everywhere—will be able to follow the argument. So that in the end the machinery of the law can be changed in favour of the great apes. It will be too late for JoJo, Jade, and Dick—they are gone ...
... judges and law professors—indeed everyone everywhere—will be able to follow the argument. So that in the end the machinery of the law can be changed in favour of the great apes. It will be too late for JoJo, Jade, and Dick—they are gone ...
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... judges, and philosophers who were kind enough to review portions of this book, or earlier articles, or to debate issues that helped me to clarify my thinking: Taimie Bryant, David Favre, Thomas G. Kelch, Sarah Luick, Richard Posner ...
... judges, and philosophers who were kind enough to review portions of this book, or earlier articles, or to debate issues that helped me to clarify my thinking: Taimie Bryant, David Favre, Thomas G. Kelch, Sarah Luick, Richard Posner ...
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... judges radically restruc- ture existing precedent in ways that reaffirm bedrock principles and policies. All the tools for deciding such a case exist. They await a great common law judge, a Mansfield, a Cardozo, a Holmes, to take them ...
... judges radically restruc- ture existing precedent in ways that reaffirm bedrock principles and policies. All the tools for deciding such a case exist. They await a great common law judge, a Mansfield, a Cardozo, a Holmes, to take them ...
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... judges that justice demands that such nonhuman animals as chimpanzees and bonobos be characterized as legal persons, at least to the extent of protecting their fundamental interests in bodily liberty (not being imprisoned) and bodily ...
... judges that justice demands that such nonhuman animals as chimpanzees and bonobos be characterized as legal persons, at least to the extent of protecting their fundamental interests in bodily liberty (not being imprisoned) and bodily ...
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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