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...work of philosophy, marking the birth of the modern animal rights movement – though its author spoke not of rights per se, but, as a utilitarian, in terms, put crudely, of maximising interests or happiness. The Australian author is now at Princeton and arguably the world’s most famous philosopher. He argues that some animals have a higher moral status than some humans...

...works of Coleridge and Wordsworth. More recently, the role of the imagination in empathy has been stressed: the ability to identify with our fellow human beings and with fictional characters being regarded as crucial in accessing other minds, enriching our own experience and developing our moral sense. In fact, in the history of western thought, the imagination has been...

...work on the Practical View. Before looking more closely at this text, however, we set the scene with reference to the state of British religion, politics and society in the aftermath of the French Revolution...Wilberforce: 2 Britain and the French Revolution - In Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) Edmund Burke (1729–97) made clear his hostile reaction to the...