The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world. Costello's son, a physics professor, admires her literary achievements, but dreads his mother's lecturing on animal rights at the college where he teaches. His colleagues resist her argument that human reason is overrated and that the inability to reason does not diminish the value of life; his wife denounces his mother's vegetarianism as a form of moral superiority. At the dinner that follows her first lecture, the guests confront Costello with a range of sympathetic and sceptical reactions to issues of animal rights, touching on broad philosophical, anthropological, and religious perspectives. Painfully for her son, Elizabeth Costello seems offensive and flaky, but - dare he admit it! - strangely on target. Here the internationally renowned writer J. M. Coetzee uses fiction to present a powerfully moving discussion of animal rights in all their complexity. He draws us into Elizabeth Costello's own sense of mortality, her compassion for animals, and her alienation from humans, even from her own family. In his fable, presented as a Tanner Lecture sponsored by the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, Coetzee immerses us in a drama reflecting the real-life situation at hand: a writer delivering a lecture on an emotionally charged issue at a prestigious university. Literature, philosophy, performance, and deep human conviction - Coetzee brings all these elements into play. As in the story of Elizabeth Costello, the Tanner Lecture is followed by responses treating the reader to a variety of perspectives, delivered by leading thinkers in different fields. Coetzee's text is accompanied by an introduction by political philosopher Amy Gutmann and responsive essays by religion scholar Wendy Doniger, primatologist Barbara Smuts, literary theorist Marjorie Garber, and moral philosopher Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation. Together the lecture-fable and the essays explore the palpable social consequences of uncompromising moral conflict and confrontation.
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庫切認為人類殺害和食用動物的行為是一種錯誤甚至邪惡。他的論據是什麼呢?他的論據是那些論證殺害動物是正當行為的人的理由是站不住腳的。那麼問題來瞭,彆人的論據有問題,是否就能證明,彆人所識圖證明的東西就一定是錯的呢?不一定。 庫切很不滿意笛卡爾把動物稱作活的機器...
評分庫切認為人類殺害和食用動物的行為是一種錯誤甚至邪惡。他的論據是什麼呢?他的論據是那些論證殺害動物是正當行為的人的理由是站不住腳的。那麼問題來瞭,彆人的論據有問題,是否就能證明,彆人所識圖證明的東西就一定是錯的呢?不一定。 庫切很不滿意笛卡爾把動物稱作活的機器...
評分庫切認為人類殺害和食用動物的行為是一種錯誤甚至邪惡。他的論據是什麼呢?他的論據是那些論證殺害動物是正當行為的人的理由是站不住腳的。那麼問題來瞭,彆人的論據有問題,是否就能證明,彆人所識圖證明的東西就一定是錯的呢?不一定。 庫切很不滿意笛卡爾把動物稱作活的機器...
評分約翰•庫切受邀參加普林斯頓大學1997-98年度的特納係列講座(Tanner Lectures),特納講座嚮來旨在探討與人類價值相關的學術與科學問題。而庫切還是操起他的本行和一嚮令人捉摸不定的文風,將嚴謹的學術演講轉變為一篇極具張力和戲劇性的小說《動物的生命》:伊麗莎白•科...
評分庫切認為人類殺害和食用動物的行為是一種錯誤甚至邪惡。他的論據是什麼呢?他的論據是那些論證殺害動物是正當行為的人的理由是站不住腳的。那麼問題來瞭,彆人的論據有問題,是否就能證明,彆人所識圖證明的東西就一定是錯的呢?不一定。 庫切很不滿意笛卡爾把動物稱作活的機器...
圖書標籤: animal rights 動物學 Writing Class 隨筆 課本 環境文學
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評分糾結的動物權利。。
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評分最值得欣賞的是作者選取敘述的形式。但animal ethics本就是一個值得思考,但實操有著必然局限性的問題。
評分The Coetzee turn. 對所謂以logical reasoning為中心的哲學的critique,對Cartesian problematic的critique。強調sympathetic imagination的延伸。那麼問題來瞭,放棄理性的界限在哪兒以及empathy的界限又在哪兒?沒有瞭理性沒有瞭從人類自身conception齣發的Costello最後隻能崩潰。或者用Diamond的話,Costello經曆的是一種無法用語言capture和conceptualize自身經曆的痛苦。
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