The Gift of Freedom
In: Social text, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 39-52
ISSN: 1527-1951
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In: Social text, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 39-52
ISSN: 1527-1951
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 522-528
ISSN: 1552-7476
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 522-528
ISSN: 0090-5917
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 522-528
ISSN: 0090-5917
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 522-528
ISSN: 0090-5917
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 32, Heft 3, S. 373-395
ISSN: 1552-7476
Virtually all political theory and ethical systems presuppose the primacy of human beings. Abstract human beings have rights, privileges, legal standing, and—it is said—claims to our sympathy. Many political debates, therefore, center on questions of where these lines are to be drawn. But many humans do not behave this way. People, for example, may expend far more love, time, money, and energy on their pets' well-being than on abstract humans. If the choice is between an operation to save their dog's life, or saving a human life through the United Nations, for example, most will choose the former, even if put in such stark terms. This essay argues that people's love for their dogs transcends the human/animal barrier, that this love overturns assumptions about the role of abstraction in our lives, and that such attunement can be understood only via new formulations of the roles of ethics and philosophy.
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 136-138
ISSN: 1552-7476
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 32, Heft 3, S. 373-395
ISSN: 1552-7476
Virtually all political theory & ethical systems presuppose the primacy of human beings. Abstract human beings have rights, privileges, legal standing, & -- it is said -- claims to our sympathy. Many political debates, therefore, center on questions of where these lines are to be drawn. But many humans do not behave this way. People, for example, may expend far more love, time, money, & energy on their pets' well-being than on abstract humans. If the choice is between an operation to safe their dog's life, or saving a human life through the United Nations, for example, most will choose the former, even if put in such stark terms. This essay argues that people's love for their dogs transcends the human/animal barrier, that this love overturns assumptions about the role of abstraction in our lives, & that such attunement can understood only via new formulations of the roles of ethics & philosophy. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright 2004.]
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 136-138
ISSN: 0090-5917
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 136
ISSN: 0090-5917
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 32, Heft 3, S. 373-395
ISSN: 0090-5917
In: Contemporary political theory: CPT, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 49-65
ISSN: 1476-9336
In: Canadian journal of political science: CJPS = Revue canadienne de science politique : RCSP, Band 36, Heft 4, S. 945-946
ISSN: 0008-4239
In: American political science review, Band 96, Heft 2, S. 397-398
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: American political science review, Band 96, Heft 2, S. 397-398
ISSN: 0003-0554