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Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics

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Tis is a new book series for a new feld of inquiry: Animal Ethics.
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the ethics of our
treatment of animals. Philosophers have led the way, and now a range
of other scholars have followed from historians to social scientists. From
being a marginal issue, animals have become an emerging issue in ethics
and in multidisciplinary inquiry.
In addition, a rethink of the status of animals has been fueled by a
range of scientifc investigations which have revealed the complexity of
animal sentiency, cognition, and awareness. Te ethical implications of

this new knowledge have yet to be properly evaluated, but it is becom-
ing clear that the old view that animals are mere things, tools, machines,

or commodities cannot be sustained ethically.
But it is not only philosophy and science that are putting animals
on the agenda. Increasingly, in Europe and the United States, animals
are becoming a political issue as political parties vie for the “green” and
“animal” vote. In turn, political scientists are beginning to look again at
the history of political thought in relation to animals, and historians are
beginning to revisit the political history of animal protection. As animals grow as an issue of importance, so there have been more
collaborative academic ventures leading to conference volumes, special
journal issues, indeed new academic animal journals as well. Moreover,

we have witnessed the growth of academic courses, as well as univer-
sity posts, in Animal Ethics, Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, Animal

Law, Animals and Philosophy, Human-Animal Studies, Critical Animal
Studies, Animals and Society, Animals in Literature, Animals and
Religion—tangible signs that a new academic discipline is emerging.
“Animal Ethics” is the new term for the academic exploration of the
moral status of the non-human—an exploration that explicitly involves a

focus on what we owe animals morally, and which also helps us to under-
stand the infuences—social, legal, cultural, religious, and political—that

legitimate animal abuse. Tis series explores the challenges that Animal

Ethics poses, both conceptually and practically, to traditional understand-
ings of human–animal relations.

Te series is needed for three reasons: (i) to provide the texts that
will service the new university courses on animals; (ii) to support the
increasing number of students studying and academics researching in
animal-related felds, and (iii) because there is currently no book series
that is a focus for multidisciplinary research in the feld.
Specifcally, the series will:
• provide a range of key introductory and advanced texts that map out
ethical positions on animals;
• publish pioneering work written by new, as well as accomplished,
scholars, and
• produce texts from a variety of disciplines that are multidisciplinary
in character or have multidisciplinary relevance.
Te new Palgrave Macmillan Series on Animal Ethics is the result
of a unique partnership between Palgrave Macmillan and the Ferrater
Mora Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Te series is an integral part
of the mission of the Centre to put animals on the intellectual agenda
by facilitating academic research and publication. Te series is also a
natural complement to one of the Centre’s other major projects, the
Journal of Animal Ethics. Te Centre is an independent “think tank” for
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the advancement of progressive thought about animals and is the frst

Centre of its kind in the world. It aims to demonstrate rigorous intellec-
tual enquiry and the highest standards of scholarship. It strives to be a
world-class center of academic excellence in its feld.

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Series Title

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Call Number

200

Publisher

Switzerland : Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2020

Collation

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-030-28407-7

Classification

200

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online resource

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Religion

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