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He asked why we don't care about suffering just because it's far away, or caused by an animal. The question has never gone away.
She argues that a just society must ask not only who has how much, but what people can actually do and be.
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“If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.”
“The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”
“Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature's reasoning itself.”
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world — an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.”
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1975
Animal Liberation published
1999
Appointed to Princeton Bioethics Chair
1986 CE
The Fragility of Goodness
1995
Chicago appointment and the capabilities approach
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Animal Liberation
The Fragility of Goodness