Envisioning a Better Future for Nonhuman Animals

Doris Schneeberger is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Change Management and Management Development at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria. She obtained a PhD degree in philosophy focusing on animal ethics and one in economic and social sciences in the field of Animal Organization Studies.

• 1 About This Book.- 1.1 How This Book Came into Existence.- 1.2 How This Book Contributes to the Literature.- 1.3 Who Might Find Value in This Book and How to Read This Book.- 1.4 How This Book is Structured.- 2 Preliminary Metareflections.- 2.1 On the Language Used in This Book and on Language and Animal Ethics in General.- 2.2 Metaethics.- 2.3 Ethical Principles.- 3 Historic and Current Discussions about Nonhuman Animal Rights – Welfarism vs. Abolitionism, Utilitarianism, Deontological Positions, Feminist Animal Ethics, and the Political Turn.- 4 Technological Innovation(,) and Moral Progress.- 4.1 From a Speciesist World to a Multispecies Society: How Technological Innovation Might Enable Moral Progress.- 4.2 Four Pillars of Nonhuman Animal Rights: Empathy, Justice, Inherent Value of Life, Knowledge.- 4.3 Moral Outrage and the Holocaust Analogy.- 5 Developing Declarations of Nonhuman Animal Rights.- 5.1 Why Do We Need Declarations of Nonhuman Animal Rights and How Could We Develop Them?.- 5.2 The Historical Emergence of Human Animal Rights.- 5.3 What Animal Ethics Can Learn from Disability Studies.- 5.3.1 The Argument of Species Overlap6 Central Concepts: Needs, Capabilities, Interests, and Rights.- 6.1 Needs.- 6.2 Interests.- 6.3 Capabilities and Telos.- 6.3.1 Martha Nussbaum’s Capability Approach.- 6.4 Interference in the Needs, Capabilities, and Interests of Sentient Beings.- 7 Imagining a Just Multispecies Society - May All Beings Be Happy and Free of Suffering?.-8 Possible Future Universal Declarations of Nonhuman Animal Rights.- 8.1 Overview of the Articles.- 8.2 Article 1: All Individuals are Born Free and Equal in Dignity and Rights – On the Dignity of (Non)Human Animals, the Value of Life.- 8.3 Article 2: The Right to Life.- 8.3.1 But what about Plants?.- 9 The Empirical Status Quo of the Right to Life (in Austria).- 10 Excursus: Norbert Hoerster, Nonhuman Animal Interests, and the Right to Life.- 11 Specific Rights in Nonhuman Animal Rights Declarations (Part 1).- 11.1 Article 3: Right to Freedom.- 11.2 Article 4: Right to Safety/Physical Integrity; Prohibition of Torture.- 12 Specific Rights in Nonhuman Animal Rights Declarations (Part 2).- 12.1 Article 5: Right to Recognition as a Person/(Legal) Subject Before the Law.- 12.1.1 Are There Nonhuman Animal Persons? The Concept of Personhood and its Ethical Relevance.- 12.1.2 The Great Ape Project by Cavalieri and Singer.- 12.1.3 Whale Rights.- 12.1.4 The Nonhuman Rights Project Around Steven M. Wise.- 13 Specific Rights in Nonhuman Animal Rights Declarations (Part 3).- 13.1 Article 6: Right to a Human Guardian, a Legal Remedy, and an Indirect Right of Legal Action.- 13.1.1 The Case of Mathias Hiasl Pan.- 14 Specific Rights in Nonhuman Animal Rights Declarations (Part 4).- 14.1 Article 7: Right to Love, Sexuality, Procreation, Pair-Building, Family, and Friendships.- 14.1.1 Right to Love, Sexuality, Procreation, Pair-Building, Family, and Friendships for Disabled Humans.- 14.1.2 Right to Love, Sexuality, Procreation, Pair-Building, Family, and Friendships for Nonhuman Animals.- 15 Specific Rights in Nonhuman Animal Rights Declarations (Part 5).- 15.1 Article 8: Right to Property: Ownership, Stewardship, or Burning Down the Forest?.- 15.2 But What About Wild Animal Suffering?.-16 Specific Rights in Nonhuman Animal Rights Declarations (Part 6).- 16.1 Article 9: Right to Macropolitical Consideration and Micro-Political Participation.- 16.1.1 Political Consideration in the Macropolis.- 16.1.2 Political Participation in the Micropolis.- 17 Specific Rights in Nonhuman Animal Rights Declarations (Part 7).- 17.1 Article 10: Right to Education.- 17.2 Article 11: Right to Work.- 17.3 Article 12: Right to an Adequate Standard of Living and to Certain Social Benefits (Protection in Case of Unemployment and Disability, Entitlement to Pension).- 18 Conclusion and Outlook.