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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Seite vii
... 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 12 Epilogue: Other Cages, Other Peaks 267 Notes 271 About ...
... 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 12 Epilogue: Other Cages, Other Peaks 267 Notes 271 About ...
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... to demonstrate the capacity of such nonhuman animals as chimpanzees and bonobos to hold such fundamental legal rights as bodily liberty and bodily integrity. Much of Rattling the Cage is devoted to legal personhood. xviii Preface.
... to demonstrate the capacity of such nonhuman animals as chimpanzees and bonobos to hold such fundamental legal rights as bodily liberty and bodily integrity. Much of Rattling the Cage is devoted to legal personhood. xviii Preface.
Seite xix
... liberty (not being imprisoned) and bodily integrity (not being beaten, tortured, or experimented upon). It argues that the possession of autonomy is sufficient under the common law to establish legal personhood, and that every ...
... liberty (not being imprisoned) and bodily integrity (not being beaten, tortured, or experimented upon). It argues that the possession of autonomy is sufficient under the common law to establish legal personhood, and that every ...
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... liberty of the Chimpanzee Four unless we persuaded judges that they were legal persons rather than things. We attacked that problem from two directions. Our first task was to persuade the judges that chimpanzees are autonomous. Half of ...
... liberty of the Chimpanzee Four unless we persuaded judges that they were legal persons rather than things. We attacked that problem from two directions. Our first task was to persuade the judges that chimpanzees are autonomous. Half of ...
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... liberty protected by the common law writ of habeas corpus, because they were autonomous. We asked the judges to recognize that the Chimpanzee Four ought to have another legal right, the common law right to bodily liberty protected by ...
... liberty protected by the common law writ of habeas corpus, because they were autonomous. We asked the judges to recognize that the Chimpanzee Four ought to have another legal right, the common law right to bodily liberty protected by ...
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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