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A Plea for the Animals
Matthieu Ricard
其他書名
The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion
出版Shambhala Publications, 2016-10-04
主題Nature / Animal RightsReligion / EthicsNature / Ecology
ISBN16118030559781611803051
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=huD4DAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A powerful and wide-ranging indictment of the treatment of animals by humans--and an eloquent plea for animal rights.

Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do. In a compelling appeal to reason and human kindness, Matthieu Ricard here takes the arguments from his best-sellers Altruism and Happiness to their logical conclusion: that compassion toward all beings, including our fellow animals, is a moral obligation and the direction toward which any enlightened society must aspire.  He chronicles the appalling sufferings of the animals we eat, wear, and use for adornment or “entertainment,” and submits every traditional justification for their exploitation to scientific evidence and moral scrutiny.  What arises is an unambiguous and  powerful ethical imperative for treating all of the animals with whom we share this planet with respect and compassion.