Asian perspectives on animal ethics : rethinking the nonhuman / edited by Neil Dalal and Chloë Taylor.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.
Description
xiv, 208 pages ; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Being sentiently with others : the shared existential trajectory among humans and nonhumans in Jainism / Anne Vallely
  • Animal compassion : what the Jātakas teach Levinas about giving "the bread from one's own mouth" / Katharine Loevy
  • China's Confucian horses : the place of nonhuman animals in a Confucian world order / Bao-Er
  • Heidegger and Zhuangzi on the nonhuman : towards a transcultural critique of (post)humanism / Mario Wenning
  • Moral rights and status of nonhuman animals
  • The argument for ahiṃsā in the Anuśāsanaparvan of the Mahābhārata / Christopher Framarin
  • Cutting the cat in one : Zen master Dōgen on the moral status of nonhuman animals / James McRae
  • Nonhuman animals and the question of rights from Asian perspectives / Christopher Key Chapple
  • Bovine dharma : nonhuman animals and the Swadhyaya Parivar / Pankaj Jain
  • Snakes in the dark age : human action, karmic retribution, and the possibilities for Hindu animal ethics / Amy L. Allocco.
ISBN
  • 9780415729864 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0415729866 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
2013038671
OCLC
859383275
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