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Zoos: A Philosophical Tour

Zoos: A Philosophical Tour

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PhilosophyZoology

ISBN10: 1349540714
ISBN13: 9781349540716
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Nov 22 2005
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In this book, Keekok Lee asks the question, 'what is an animal, and how does our treatment of it within captivity affect its status as a being ?' This ontological treatment marks the first such approach in looking at animals in captivity. Engaging with the moral questions of zoo-keeping (is it morally justified to keep a wild animal in captivity?) as well as the ontological (what is it that we conserve in zoos after all? A wild animal or its shadow?), Lee develops her own original hypothesis, centred around the concept of 'immuration' - defining this in contrast to domestication - and thereby provides a unique addition to the growing body of work on animal ethics.

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