{"product_id":"9783032216458","title":"The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series: For All Sentient Beings","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series: For All Sentient Beings\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eSimonds, Colin H.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\"\u003eThis book offers the first systematic philosophical account of animal ethics grounded in Buddhist thought. While Buddhist vegetarianism and compassion are often discussed in historical and popular contexts, no scholarly work has yet articulated a comprehensive Buddhist ethical theory that addresses contemporary questions about our treatment of nonhuman animals. Colin H. \u003cspan style=\"border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;\"\u003eSimonds\u003c\/span\u003e fills this critical gap, drawing on Tibetan Mahāyāna traditions to argue that the alleviation of \u003cem\u003eduḥkha\u003c\/em\u003e—suffering—logically extends to all sentient beings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\"\u003eThe book develops a robust Buddhist animal ethic by examining the tradition’s epistemological foundation, ethical centring of the sentient being, concepts of compassion and human exceptionalism, and notions of rebirth, kinship, interdependence, and moral phenomenology. \u003cspan style=\"border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;\"\u003eSimonds\u003c\/span\u003e then applies this framework to urgent ethical issues including eating animals, industrial agriculture, animal testing, ritual animal release, and animal captivity. The result is a groundbreaking intervention that challenges human‑centred assumptions and reframes Buddhist ethics for a more‑than‑human world. Bridging Buddhist studies, philosophy, and animal ethics, this book will be essential reading for scholars, students, and practitioners engaged in Buddhist ethics, religion and animals, environmental humanities, and applied ethics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2026-12-12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783032216458\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: \u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46313398206604,"sku":"9783032216458","price":143.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032216458","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}