Alice’s Non-Anthropocentric Ethics: Lewis Carroll as a Defender of Animal Rights

A Reading of the Animal Defender Art in Terms of Ethics and Political Economy

This research tries to explain the place of animals in the process of ethics and political economy and based on selected examples, studies and analyzes the art of protecting the animals. It should be noted that although the moral status of animals has been developing in recent decades, economic systems determine the hierarchy of beings in societies. According to the modern philosophers, art as ...

Lewis Carroll ' s ' Jabberwocky ' : non - sense not nonsense 1

Although Lewis Carroll's 'Jabberwocky' is traditionally considered to be 'nonsense', such a characterisation ultimately rests on a Western folk notion of language as fundamentally semantico-referential. A more semiotically, and pragmatically, informed view of language and language-use, however, is capable of describing in considerable detail both the means by which a text such as 'Jabberwocky' ...

Humor in Science: The Lewis Carroll Connection

I really can’t quite remember when I first corresponded with Rudi Schmid, Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley. He is the kind of pen pal who exemplifies the best of the communal world of science facilitated internationally by journal literature and informal correspondence. Some time ago he surprised me with a delightful study comparing postal services at the turn of the cen...

Animal Rights as a Mainstream Phenomenon

Businesses and professions must stay in accord with social ethics, or risk losing their autonomy.A major social ethical issue that has emerged in the past four decades is the treatment of animals in various areas of human use. Society's moral concern has outgrown the traditional ethic of animal cruelty that began in biblical times and is encoded in the laws of all civilized societies. There are...

Animal Rights Consideration is a Necessity in Conducting an Experiment