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Where To Begin? First just look around. The Encyclopedia is built around interwoven topics: Basic Foundation Ethical Theories Moral Principles Ideas Animal-Human Problems Background Personalities Odds n'Ends Read the Basic Foundation to establish a solid base. Then follow your particular interest by picking out other entries. For alphabetical order of entries click the wolf on the right. Basic Foundation Introduction          What is the problem? Animal Ethics          Introduction to animal ethics. Animal Ethics Background          Round up of historical ethical attitudes to animals. Ethical Frameworks          The three basic ways of sorting ethical thoughts. Ethics & Philosophy          A look at philosophy and ethics. Thinking Through Moral Issues          Cultivating good animal attitudes. Top of page

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Ethical Theories Absolutism Altruism Anthropocentrism Anthropocentrism, Enlightened Consequence Ethics Contractarianism Deep Ecology Duty Ethics Emotivism Environmental Ethics Ethical Egoism Golden Rule Legalism Painism Relativism Rights Situationism Subjectivism Utilitarianism Virtue Ethics Top of page Moral Principles Equal Consideration of Interests Interests Intrinsic Value Instrumental Value Ethical Monism / Pluralism Marginal Cases Moral Agent Moral Autonomy Moral Community Moral Duty Moral Patient Moral Status Reciprocal Morality Sentience Speciesism Subject of a Life Values & Moral Judgements Top of page Ideas Ahimsa Animal Morality Anthropomorphism Evolutionary Continuity Expanding the Circle Five Freedoms Han Invertebrate Harmony It Life or Death Fallacy Moral Ubiquity Naturalistic Fallacy Natural Selection Number Fallacy Religious Tradition Umwelt Universal Declaration on Animals Welfarism, New Top of page Animal-Human Problems Animal Abuse Animal Experimentation Bearskin Hats Bestiality Biomedical Research Brushes Bushmeat Canned Hunts Cat Play Cat Traffic Training Chickens Draize Test Factory Farming Fishing - Angling Fishing - Deep Sea Fishing - Farming Foie Gras Fox Hunting With Hounds Fur  Global Warming Glue Goldfish Bowl Great Ape Project Great Apes Survival Project Hens & Eggs Holocaust, The Animal Human Overpopulation Human Superiority Hunt Saboteurs Association Livestock Numbers Worldwide Livestock Slaughter Numbers Meat Consumption Worldwide  Mass Extinction Mulesing Prejudice Punishment Rodeo Supermarkets Tragedy of the Commons Vivisection Wolf Ethics Wool Vermin Xenotransplantation Zoophilia Zoos Top of page Background Activism Animality Animal Rights vs Animal Ethics Animal Rights vs Conservation Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare Behaviourism Brain, Milestones of Understanding Clever Hans Consciousness Cruelty Cruelty-free Cull & Control Cute Factor Dog Controlling Experimental Contradiction Frustration Fur Test Human Recognition Laboratory Animals Meat Mirror Test Misothery Passenger Pigeon Predation Shaping Soul Specious Reasoning Terrorism Theory Multiplicity Therianthopy Three R's Think Like an Animal Thinking Animals Vegetarianism Werewolves & Lycanthropy Wolf Children Top of page Personalities Many people impact on animal ethics. The people below are a tiny sample. Aquinas, Thomas Aristotle Bentham, Jeremy Best, Steven Copernicus, Nicolaus Darwin, Charles Descartes, Rene Lawrence, John Linzey, Andrew Martin, Richard McLibel Two Newkirk, Ingrid Regan, Tom Ryder, Richard D Salt, Henry Singer, Peter Spira, Henry Top of page Odds n'Ends Glossary Bibliography Appendix Top of page © 2004 Roger Panaman All rights reserved