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Sentientist Politics: A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice
Sentientist Politics: A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice
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There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications. Indeed, most are in agreement that animal sentience ought to constrain the actions of political institutions, limiting the harms that can be
perpetrated against animals. The primary aim of this book is to show that the political implications of animal sentience go even further than this. For this book argues that sentience establishes a moral equality and a shared set of rights amongst those creatures who possess it. Crucially, this
worth and these rights create a duty on moral agents to establish and maintain a political order dedicated to their interests. This book is devoted to sketching what this 'sentientist politics' might look like. It argues in favour of a ' sentientist cosmopolitan democracy': a global political system made up of overlapping local, national, regional and global communities comprised of human and non-human members who exist
within shared 'communities of fate'. Furthermore, the institutions of those communities should be democratic - that is to say, participative, deliberative and representative. Finally, those institutions should include dedicated representatives of non-human animals whose job should be to translate
the interests of animals into deliberations over what is in the public good for their communities.
Author: Alasdair Cochrane
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/18/2018
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780198789802
perpetrated against animals. The primary aim of this book is to show that the political implications of animal sentience go even further than this. For this book argues that sentience establishes a moral equality and a shared set of rights amongst those creatures who possess it. Crucially, this
worth and these rights create a duty on moral agents to establish and maintain a political order dedicated to their interests. This book is devoted to sketching what this 'sentientist politics' might look like. It argues in favour of a ' sentientist cosmopolitan democracy': a global political system made up of overlapping local, national, regional and global communities comprised of human and non-human members who exist
within shared 'communities of fate'. Furthermore, the institutions of those communities should be democratic - that is to say, participative, deliberative and representative. Finally, those institutions should include dedicated representatives of non-human animals whose job should be to translate
the interests of animals into deliberations over what is in the public good for their communities.
Author: Alasdair Cochrane
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/18/2018
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780198789802
About the Author
Alasdair Cochrane is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Sheffield. His main research interest is in 'animal politics' and his publications include An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (Palgrave, 2010) and Animal Rights without Liberation (Columbia, 2012). His other research interests engage with a broad range of topical ethical issues, most notably human rights, environmental ethics, bioethics, food ethics, and the ethics of imprisonment.
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