Animals, Men and Morals
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Animals, Men and Morals: An Inquiry into the Maltreatment of Non-humans (1971) is a collection of essays on animal rights, edited by Oxford philosophers Stanley and Roslind Godlovitch, both from Canada, and John Harris from the UK. The editors were members of the Oxford Group, a group of postgraduate philosophy students and others based at the University of Oxford from 1968, who began raising the idea of animal rights in seminars and campaigning locally against factory farming and otter hunting.
Author | Stanley and Roslind Godlovitch John Harris (eds.) |
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Illustrator | James Grashow, Friends of Animals |
Subject | Animal rights Moral philosophy |
Publisher | Victor Gollancz, London Grove Press, New York |
Publication date | 1971 |
Publication place | United Kingdom, United States |
Pages | 240 |
ISBN | 0-394-17825-4 |
LC Class | 73-20609 |
The book was ground-breaking in its time, because it was one of the early publications in the mid-20th century that argued clearly in favour of animal liberation/animal rights, rather than simply for compassion in the way animals are used. The editors wrote in the introduction: "Once the full force of moral assessment has been made explicit there can be no rational excuse left for killing animals, be they killed for food, science, or sheer personal indulgence."[1]