The moral menagerie: philosophy and animal rights

Introduction

Why care about animals?

Broader philosophical considerations

Utilitarian arguments : the value of animal experience

Deontological arguments : do animals have natural rights?

Aristotelian arguments : animal telos and human aretē

Contractarian arguments : animals outside the state of nature

Extensionism and its limits

The call and the circle : the animal in postmodern thought

Ecophilosophy : deep ecology and ecofeminism

Sacrifice and self-overcoming

The child, the hunter, and the artist.