Animal Rights and Human Obligations.

Animal Rights and Human Obligations. A clean and tightly bound book. Pencil underlining and notations on some pages. This well-balanced collection of writings fosters serious discussion of man's relation with non-human animals. It raises many evocative questions that have significant implications for contemporary civilization. The arguments are thought-provoking: for example, Charles Darwin offers a "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals"; Aristotle explains "How Humans Differ from Other Creatures"; Albert Schweitzer explores "The Ethic of Reverence for Life"; and Tom Regan asks "Do Animals Have A Right to Life?" The articles are timely as we are just now learning how our attitude toward wild life and the destruction of whole species affects ecology, how the threat of global famine shows that modern methods of feeding animals for food waste more protein than can be produced, and how sign- language experiments with animals shows how closely we are related to them.