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One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Law Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-19201-2

ISBN: 978-3-031-19203-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jan 1, 2023

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Chapter 1Animal Rights: A New (Non)Human Rights Revolution?

Stucki, Saskia

Pages: 1 –15

[Animal rights is an idea whose time has come. This book looks at animal rights through the lens—and as a phenomenon—of new human rights. It revisits a question once famously asked by the philosopher Paola Cavalieri: are human rights human? In other words, can and should animals have some of the...
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Chapter 2Naturalistic Conceptions of Human and Animal Rights: From Human Exceptionalism to Transspecies Universalism

Stucki, Saskia

Pages: 17 –48

[This chapter investigates whether the extension of human rights to animals can be placed on a sound conceptual footing. Can (nonhuman) animals have human rights? The starting point of this inquiry is the ‘traditional’ or ‘orthodox’ understanding of human rights, which is the naturalistic...
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Chapter 3Political Conceptions of Human and Animal Rights: Principled and Prudential Reasons

Stucki, Saskia

Pages: 49 –90

[The preceding chapter has argued that animals could have (some) human rights. Granted that the proposition of human rights for animals is conceptually plausible on naturalistic grounds, the question remains whether it is politically desirable on practical grounds. Would the inclusion of animals...
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Chapter 4One Rights: Indivisibility and Interdependence of Human and Animal Rights

Stucki, Saskia

Pages: 91 –104

[The previous chapters have argued that human rights can and should be extended to animals. This final part advocates the recognition of animal rights as new human rights. Accepting animal rights as the next generation of (non)human rights would constitute a seismic shift and likely lead to the...

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