Katy Fulfer

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Archives for May 2019

May 31, 2019 by Katy

Poets for the animals

I've been thinking about story-telling and relationships with particular animals. Consider the following two snippets: Peter Singer doesn’t love animals In the preface to the 1975 edition of Animal Liberation, Peter Singer shares a story about a time he was invited to tea. He'd begun working on Animal Liberation. Much to the surprise of his host, Singer admitted that he isn't an animal lover (p. 9). Singer came to his theory of animal liberation through rational argument, not a relationship … [Read more...]

Filed Under: animals, Hannah Arendt Tagged With: altruism, empathy, fiction, Lisa Disch, Peter Singer, philosophy, poetry, relational ethics, vegan

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