Companion Animal Ethics: A Special Area of Moral Theory and Practice?
Considerations of ethical questions regarding pets should take into account the nature of human-pet relationships, in particular the uniquely combined features of mutual companionship, quasi-family-membership, proximity, direct contact, privacy, dependence, and partiality. The approaches to ethical...
| Published in: | Ethical Theory & Moral Practice Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 347 - 360 |
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Apr2017
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