Contribution to Book
Care, Moral Progress, and Companion Animals
Pets and People
(2017)
Abstract
The thesis of this chapter is not only that companion animals are vital to human moral development of care but also that care as learned and exhibited in companion animal relationships provides the habit and skill needed for moral progress. This moral development is achieved not in an instrumental or exploitative relationship with companion animals but within the context of authentic care. In other words, the argument is not so much that we learn care from animals, but that we learn skills of care from our rich and mutually beneficial relationshipswith animals that feed our imagination and make moral progress possible.
Keywords
- care ethics,
- animal welfare,
- moral progress
Disciplines
Publication Date
2017
Editor
Christine Overall
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Citation Information
Maurice Hamington. "Care, Moral Progress, and Companion Animals" Pets and People (2017) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/maurice_hamington/51/