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Klappentext: Do all animals have rights? Is it morally wrong to use mice or dogs in medical research, or rabbits and cows as food? How ought we resolve conflicts between the interests of humans and those of other animals? Philosophical inquiry is essential in addressing such questions; the answers given must have enormous practical importance. Here for the first time in the same volume, the animal rights debate is argued deeply and fully by the two most articulate and influential philosophers representing the opposing camps. Each makes his case in turn to the opposing case. The arguments meet head on: Are we humans morally justified in using animals as we do? A vexed and enduring controversy here receives its deepest and most eloquent exposition.

"This edition is reprinted from the 1971 Columbia University Press edition by arrangement with Carl Cohen." ; Includes index. ; What Civil Disobedience Is -- What Civil Disobedience Is Not -- The Kinds of Civil Disobedience -- The Punishment of Civil Disobedience -- The Justification of Civil Disobedience -- Seven Arguments Against Civil Disobedience -- Civil Disobedience and Free Speech -- Civil Disobedience and the Nuremberg Judgments -- Conscience, Tactics, and Law -- ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Mode of access: World Wide Web.

AbstractAs public psychiatry programs for the elderly begin to emerge, we must refine our therapeutic theories and techniques in order to serve this population better.

Historical evidence indicates that until the seventeenth century, a dialectical conception of madness existed; it combined the elements of loss of reason and idiocy with prophecy and clairvoyance. The onset of the Age of Reason marked the end of man's communication with madness and the accompanying dissolution of the dialectic - madness became solely a symbol of opprobrium and the insane were herded off into houses of confinement. Because mad people are returning to the streets again, it is important that we begin to explore the potential benefits that can be derived from re-establishing our communications with madness, i.e. reconstituting the dialectic. An examination of the formerly valued aspects of madness can serve as a useful point of departure.

Reprint. Originally published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1971] ; Mode of access: Internet.