10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2020
We’re all connected through email and listservs, and we all swap information and provide each other with moral support. author’s note: Earth Almanac: A Year of Witnessing the Wild, from the Call of the Loon to the Journey of the Gray Whale by Ted Williams, is due out in late April, published by Storey Publ.])
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 28, 2010
Let us think of the more moral members of society as a moral elite, much as the generality of scientists form a scientific elite. I hope I do not need to stress that such a moral elite must not be confused with a social or intellectual elite. I am myself not so heroic. I eat eggs though they may come from battery hens.
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Animal Ethics
AUGUST 19, 2009
I assumed that Hume was right in thinking that ultimately morality depends on how we feel about things. If so, then he is to be excused; but nobody today can think that any particular moral theory has an advantage over the others based on the status it accords animals.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 1, 2010
If an animal has the relevant moral capacities, actually or potentially, then it can be a possessor of rights. The evidence available to date about the rational capacities of animals is far from complete, but to date it appears to be decidedly unfavourable to the view that any animals possess the relevant moral capacities.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 30, 2012
Properly interpreted, the common law is meant to be flexible, adaptable to changes in public morality, and sensitive to new scientific discoveries. Among its chief values are liberty and equality.
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2021
The reader gets to know that Moore loves the song of the Meadowlark, and the sight of whales, and other natural things and beings and sounds and emanations. The book consists of essays and stories, written in the first person, most of which have a connection, sometimes a tenuous one, with the auricular.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
Elephants, whales, hippopotamuses, giraffes, and alligators use low-frequency sounds to communicate over long distances, often miles; and bats, dolphins, whales, frogs, and various rodents use high-frequency sounds to find food, communicate with others, and navigate. A Grateful Whale. Is this moral?
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