Beastly morality animals as ethical agents

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Featuring original essays by philosophers, ethicists, religionists, and ethologists, this collection demonstrates the ability of animals to operate morally, process ideas of good and bad, and think seriously about sociality and virtue. Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Beastly Morality: A Twisting Tale, by Jonathan K. Crane Part I: The Permeability of Morality 2. De-humanizing Morality, by Kendy Hess 3. HumAnI(m)Morality, by Sean Meighoo 4. Not All Dogs Go to Heaven: Judaism's Lessons in Beastly Morality, by Mark Goldfeder Part II: Observing Animal Morality 5. Animal Empathy as Moral Building Block, by Frans B. M. de Waal 6. Humans, Other Animals, and the Biology of Morality, by Elisabetta Palagi 7. Moral Mutts: Social Play, Fairness, and Wild Justice, by Marc Bekoff 8. Fighting Fair: The Ecology of Honor in Humans and Animals, by Dan Demetriou Part III: Reading Animal Morality 9. Reading, Teaching Insects: Ant Society as Pedagogical Device in Rabbinic Literature, by Harrison King 10. Jakushin's Dogs and the Goodness of Animals: Preaching the Moral Life of Beasts in Medieval Japanese Tale Literature, by Michael Bathgate Part IV: Reconceiving Animal Morality 11. Just Chimpanzees? A Thomistic Perspective on Ethics in a Nonhuman Species, by John Berkman 12. Brutal Justice? Animal Litigation and the Question of Countertradition, by Jonathan K. Crane and Aaron S. Gross Part V: Epilogue 13. Beastly Morality: Untangling Possibilities, by Jonathan K. Crane, Ani B. Satz, Lori Marino, and Cynthia Willett List of Contributors Index