Mark Rowlands
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The charming and poignant story of the relationship between a philosophy professor and his pet wolf.
Mark Rowlands was a young philosophy professor, rootless and searching for life's greater meaning. Shortly after arriving at the University of Alabama, he noticed a classified ad in the local paper advertising wolf cubs for sale, and decided he had to investigate, if only out of curiosity. It was love at first sight, and the bond that grew between...
3) A Good Life
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Framed by the story of a son finding his late father's journal, a meditation on love, meaning, and morality by the author of The Philosopher and the Wolf.
Myshkin was born on a certain day and died on a certain day-and some things happened to him in between. These things presented him with ethical questions, and this book is a record of his attempt to answer those questions.
Discovered in 2054 by his son after Myshkin's death in the Florida Keys,...
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Ils partagent nos vies, nous aident, nous aiment, pourtant nous ne leur rendons pas toujours: ce sont les animaux. Alors que l'on file sans hésiter chez le vétérinaire pour soigner son meilleur compagnon, d'autres individus finissent chaque année dans nos assiettes, font les frais de l'industrie cosmétique, de l'élevage intensif ou encore de la chasse.
Mark Rowlands démontre dans son livre que les animaux sont bien plus proches de nous que...
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"Most of the serious thinking I have done over the past twenty years has been done while running," says philosophy professor Rowlands, who has run for most of his life. And for him, running and philosophizing are inextricably connected. In Running with the Pack, he reveals the most significant runs of his life-from the entire day he spent running as a boy in Wales, to the runs along French beaches and up Irish mountains with his beloved wolf, Brenin,...
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A Collection of True Tales of Animal Empathy and Altruism that will Inspire Us to Reflect on Our Own Human Nature.
What do stories about humpback whales protecting a biologist from a shark, a pride of lions rescuing a girl from kidnappers, gorillas working together to dismantle poacher snares, a parrot warding off an attacker in a park, a chimpanzee consoling a human, and an elephant trying to rescue a baby rhino tell us about animal nature? And,...
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Si bien el interés por la consideración moral que corresponde a los animales es tan antiguo como la especulación filosófica en Occidente, a partir de los años sesenta y setenta del siglo pasado el mismo ha crecido exponencialmente. Este libro presenta una muestra de la producción teórica desarrollada en este campo desde la filosofía moral liberal, la teoría política, el derecho, los estudios críticos y los feminismos, en un repaso de las...