Binding: Hardcover
Description: There is now widespread agreement that many non - human animals are sentient and that this fact has important moral and political implications. Indeed most are in agreement that animal sentience ought to constrain the actions of political institutions limiting the harms that can be perpetrated against animals. The primary aim of this book is to show that the political implications of animal sentience go even further than this. For this book argues that sentience establishes a moral equality and a shared set of rights amongst those creatures who possess it. Crucially this worth and these rights create a duty on moral agents to establish and maintain a political order dedicated to their interests. This book is devoted to sketching what this 'sentientist politics might look like. It argues in favour of a sentientist cosmopolitan democracy': a global political system made up of overlapping local national regional and global communities comprised of human and non - human members who exist within shared 'communities of fate'. Furthermore the institutions of those communities should be democratic - that is to say participative deliberative and representative. Finally those institutions should include dedicated representatives of non - human animals whose job should be to translate the interests of animals into deliberations over what is in the public good for their communities.
Title: Sentientist Politics A Theory Of Global Inter - Species Justice
Author(s): Cochrane Alasdair (Senior Lecturer In Political Theory Senior Lecturer In Political Theory University Of Sheffield)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198789802
Pages: 174 Pages
Publication Date: 12/18/2018
Category: Political Science & Theory