Human rights and animal rights: differences matter

Abstract: This critique of Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka’s important book, Zoopolis, asks in what respect humans and animals categorically differ and to what extent this difference counts in a moral sense. Second, the text explains why it is illegitimate to equate human victims of racial discrimination and murder with tormented and killed animals. Finally, it is demonstrated why the conceptual analogies to animals presented in this book, namely 'co-citizens' as a term for animals that live in companionship with humans, 'denizens' for those animals that cross borders between human and natural living spaces, and 'sovereign nations' for wild animals, have to be interpreted as overstretched analogies. The main thesis is that the promise of the book - to develop a political theory of animals' rights - remains unfulfilled

Angaben zum Objekt

• Weitere Titel: Menschenrechte und Tierrechte: auf die Unterschiede kommt es an
• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Human rights and animal rights: differences matter ; volume:40 ; number:4 ; year:2015 ; pages:55-62 ; Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; Historical social research ; 40, Heft 4 (2015), 55-62

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Philosophie ; Recht

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Stein, Tine

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.12759/hsr.40.2015.4.55-62
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019052213461819928786
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 26.08.20252025, 02:47 MESZ