Animal Rights Education (eBook)

Kai Horsthemke is an Associate Professor and teaches Philosophy of Education at KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Wits School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, UK. His research interests include African philosophy and indigenous knowledge systems.  

Series Editors’ Preface 6
Acknowledgements 9
Contents 10
Introduction and Chapter Overview 12
Part I Animals and Morality 20
1 The Minds and Interests of Animals 21
Consciousness in Animals 22
Moral Influence 22
Scientific Influence 23
Material or Economic Influence 23
Consciousness in Animals 24
Conative and Cognitive Life 27
Interests and Moral Standing 47
2 Moral Anthropocentrism, Non-Paradigmatic Cases, and Speciesism 52
Accounts of Indirect Duty 55
Contractarianism and Justice as Reciprocity 59
The Argument from Non-Paradigmatic Cases, and Subject-Centred Justice 68
The Argument from Speciesism 74
3 Non-Anthropocentric Views, Animals as Moral Subjects, and Equality 81
Animals as Moral Subjects 81
Taking Equality Seriously 86
Reverence for Life 91
Sympathy 96
Utilitarianism 101
Classical Utilitarianism 101
Contemporary Utilitarianism 109
Part II Animals and Education 125
4 Moral Education and Animals 126
Animal Abuse and Human Violence 127
Capabilities, Moral Sentiments and Social Justice 129
Children and Other Animals: A Brief Digression into the Terrain of Developmental Psychology 133
Moral Education, Young People, and Animals 137
5 Environmental Education and Education for Sustainability, Biophilia and Ecophilia 145
The State of the Planet 145
A Brief History of Environmental Education 147
Education for Sustainability and Sustainable Development 153
Anthropocentrism, Ecocentrism, and “Radical Value Positions” 157
Learning for the Environment 159
Biophilia and Ecophilia 163
6 Humane Education and Theriophilia 169
Environmental and Humane Education 169
Kindness 173
Theriophilia 175
Humane Education Beyond the Affective 181
7 Philosophical Posthumanism, Critical Pedagogy, and Ecopedagogy 188
Philosophical Posthumanism 188
Critical Pedagogy 197
Ecopedagogy 201
8 Critical Animal Studies and Animal Standpoint Theory 209
Mainstream and Critical Animal Studies 209
Standpoint Theory 218
Animal Standpoint Theory 221
9 Vegan Education 229
Veganism and Non-Violent Education 230
The Critique of Vegan Education 238
Pacifism, Direct Action, and Education 240
“Ontological Veganism” Versus “Ecological Animalism” 245
Part III Animal Rights and Education 251
10 The Place of Rights in Morality, and Animal Rights Education 252
Historical Background 252
An Analysis of Rights 253
Rights and Animals 258
Conditions for the Ascription of Rights, and Moral Agency 259
Basic Moral Rights 269
Non-Basic Moral Rights 279
The Possibility and Promise of Animal Rights Education 282
11 Loose Ends and Remaining Problems 285
Rights, the Course of Nature and the Duty to Provide Assistance 286
Justifiable and Unjustifiable Violation of Rights 290
The Rights and Wrongs of Simpler Organisms and Ecosystems 300
12 Change, Emancipation, and Some Practical Suggestions for Theriocentric Education 312
Rights and Structural Change 314
Rights: The Feminist Rejoinder 317
Beyond Rights: Liberation or Emancipation? 323
Some Practical Suggestions for Theriocentric Education 326
Concluding Thoughts 329
Appendix: The Architecture of Moral Status 331
References 332
Index 351