Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights and Social Justice
by Ted Benton
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In this challenging book, Ted Benton takes recent debates about the moral status of animals as a basis for reviewing the discourse of "human rights." Liberal-individualist views of human rights and advocates of animal rights tend to think of individuals, whether human or animals, in isolation from their social position. This makes them vulnerable to criticisms from the left which emphasize the importance of social relationships to individual well-being. Benton's argument supports the show more important assumption, underpinning the cause for human rights, that humans and other species of animal have much in common, both in the conditions for their well-being and their vulnerability to harm. Both liberal rights theory and its socialist critique fail adequately to theorize these aspects of human vulnerability. Nevertheless, it is argued that, enriched by feminist and ecological insights, a socialist view of rights has much to offer. Lucid and wide-ranging in its argument, Natural Relations enables the outline of an ecological socialist view of rights and justice to begin to take shape. show lessTags
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Ted Benton started his career teaching biology and physics in Leicester, but is now a professor of spciology at the University of Essex
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- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Science & Nature
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- 323 — Society, government, & culture Political science Civil Rights & Liberties/ Human Rights
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- JC571 .B465 — Political Science Political theory Political theory. The state. Theories of the state Purpose, functions, and relations of the state
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