Book contents
- Ethics and Animals
- Cambridge Applied Ethics
- Ethics and Animals
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments (for the second edition)
- Acknowledgments (for the first edition)
- Abbreviations
- 1 Why Animals Matter
- 2 The Natural and the Normative
- 3 Eating Animals
- 4 Experimenting with Animals
- 5 Dilemmas of Captivity
- 6 Animals in the Wild
- 7 Action for Animals
- References
- Index
6 - Animals in the Wild
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2021
- Ethics and Animals
- Cambridge Applied Ethics
- Ethics and Animals
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments (for the second edition)
- Acknowledgments (for the first edition)
- Abbreviations
- 1 Why Animals Matter
- 2 The Natural and the Normative
- 3 Eating Animals
- 4 Experimenting with Animals
- 5 Dilemmas of Captivity
- 6 Animals in the Wild
- 7 Action for Animals
- References
- Index
Summary
In this chapter, human-caused extinction is discussed and the philosophical challenges of identifying whether there is value in collectives over and above the individuals that make up that collective are explored. Though humans are doing a great deal of harm to other species, the history of intervention is also discussed as a problem. Moral arguments about whether humans should intervene or not are explored.
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- Ethics and AnimalsAn Introduction, pp. 177 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021