Moralitys Progress

Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature

By: Dale Jamieson

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Paperback | 1 February 2003

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Morality's Progress is the summation of nearly three decades of work by Dale Jamieson, a leading figure in environmental ethics and bioethics. The twenty-two papers here are invigoratingly diverse, but together tell a unified story about various aspects of the morality of our relationships to animals and to nature.The volume begins by addressing the possibility of moral progress and the value of practical ethics. It then moves on to discuss the nature of animal minds, and our moral duties with respect to animals; it concludes with essays that address larger environmental questions. Considered as a whole, Morality's Progress is an attempt to draw out the moral consequences of a thoroughgoing Darwinian Naturalism. The perspective that informs this work is philosophically naturalist, morally consequentialist, and metaethically constructivist. Jamieson's essays will convince sceptics that thinking about our moral relations to animals and nature can offer great intellectual reward, and his work here sets a challenging, controversial agenda for the future.

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`An outstanding collection of essays - full of compassion and insight. Dale Jamieson addresses critical issues in the animal protection and environmental movements with clarity, elegance, and courage. If you care about making this place a better place for all life, this book should be on your bookshelf.' Jane Goodall `Dale Jamieson's intellect is sharp, his moral sensitivity is acute, and his writing is lucid. In Morality's Progress he uses these qualities to probe deep questions about animals, nature, biotechnology, environmental justice, and the nature of ethics itself. This is a book that all those concerned about these questions should read. It is not only about morality's progress, it is itself a contribution to it.' Peter Singer

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