Ethical Veganism, Virtue Ethics, and the Great Soul (eBook)

Carlo Alvaro (Autor)

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2019
214 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9002-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Ethical veganism is the view that raising animals for food is an immoral practice that must be stopped because of the harm it causes to the animals, the environment, and our health. Carlo Alvaro argues the only way to stop that harm is to acquire the virtues that enable us to act justly and benevolently toward animals.

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Millions of animals are brought into existence and raised for food every year. This has generated three serious problems: first, intensive animal farming is one of the leading causes of environmental degradation. Farming livestock contributes to a large amount of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere each year; it contributes to land and water degradation, biodiversity loss, coral reef degeneration, and deforestation. Second, raising animals for food causes millions of animals to suffer and be killed. And third, consumption of meat and animal products is linked with heart disease, diabetes, and various cancers. Consequently, a global change in the way that animals are treated is imperative. Many moral philosophers have suggested a move toward vegetarianism. But vegetarianism, unfortunately, still relies on raising animals for food, and does not avoid the deleterious effects of animal products on human health. The right solution is ethical veganism, which is the avoidance of all animal products and by-products. Some moral philosophers have framed ethical veganism in terms of animals having the same fundamental rights as humans, a notion that is highly controversial. In any case, the view that animals have rights is not capable of generating the moral duty to embrace ethical veganism. The answer is to adopt a virtue-oriented approach to the treatment of animals because the acquisition of virtues, such as compassion, magnanimity, temperance, and fairness enable people to see that raising and using animals for food is unfair, callous, and self-indulgent.

Autor

Carlo Alvaro teaches philosophy at New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York and at St. Francis College.

Inhalt

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Kant, Animals, and Indirect Moral DutyKant, Marginal Cases, and AnimalsWhat’s Wrong with the Indirect Duty View?Two Neo-Kantian ViewsChapter 2: Utilitarianism: All that is Gold does not GlitterSome basic Tenets of UtilitarianismUtilitarianism = Vegetarianism?ConclusionChapter 3: Eating People and Eating AnimalsUtilitarians and AnimalsEating Animals and PeopleMarginal CasesConclusionChapter 4: A New Horizon: Virtue EthicsOn Morality and the Discipline of Non-Aretaic AuthoritiesWhat is Virtue Ethics?The Virtue ApproachThe Components of VEMore ObjectionsChapter 5: What about Our Treatment of Animals?The Scope of VirtueAnimal Ethics Needs VirtueChapter 6: Veganism as a VirtueEmbracing Virtue Some Tenets of Virtue EthicsFour Important Virtues: temperance, compassion, fairness, and greatness of the soulEating Meat and the Destruction of the Environment ConclusionChapter 7: Some ObjectionsBeing Vegans is not for everyoneWhere Do We Draw the Line? Plants Suffer TooEating Meat is an Enjoyable ExperienceEating animals is naturalAnimals Eat Other AnimalsWhat about Tradition?Religion Allows MeatEating Meat is HealthfulChapter 8: Awareness: What we do to AnimalsAwarenessShould We Become All Vegans?The Link between Virtue and VeganismReaching People in Non-Manipulative WaysChapter 9: Ethical Veganism’s Beef with Cultured MeatVirtue and ObjectionsEthical Veganism and Lab-Grown MeatAbortion and MeatConclusionBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Ernährung / Diät / Fasten
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
• Schlagworte: Animal ethics • Animal Studies • Animal Warfare • Applied Ethics • Aristotle • Bioethics • Care Ethics • Environmental Ethics • environmental philosophy • Environmental Studies • ethical veganism • Kant • Moral Philosophy • Moral Theory • Nutrition Science • Political Philosophy • Temperance • Vegetarianism • Virtues
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-9002-0 / 1498590020
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-9002-0 / 9781498590020