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Manfred Kuehn on Kant's Cosmopolitanism

Animal Ethics

They are dismissed by some as a "Eurocentric illusion," and praised by others as the answer to the problem of humanity's survival. I'm a citizen of the United States (as well as some of its subdivisions, such as Texas and Fort Worth). Our duties to them, he argued, are actually duties to particular human beings.

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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Animal Ethics

Today, while running in 84ยบ heat (and excessive humidity), I noticed a dog lying on a slab of concrete in someone's back yard. It looked as though the dog was lying in the shadow of a basketball backboard. Sure enough, there was a black dog (a pit bull) lying in the three-by-three-foot shadow cast by a backboard on the concrete.