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In this excellent book, Shelly Kagan defends a sophisticated answer to the question whether or not moral status comes in degrees. His answer is: yes and no, but mostly yes. In particular, he argues for a view that he calls 'limited hierarchy', according to which (a) people have higher moral status than animals (and some animals have higher moral status than others), but (b) all people have equal moral status. At first glance, this view seems as though it has no chance of working. But Kagan is a brilliant philosopher, and through a series of clever moves . . . he makes a surprisingly strong case for his view. . . an essential contribution to the literature. * Jeff Sebo, Mind * A thorough, insightful, accessible, and immensely rewarding discussion of the kind of relative status we should seek between humans and nonhumans. * Andrius Galisanka, Utilitas *

An excellent articulation of the view that while animals count, humans count for more * Joseph Lynch, Ethics * In this excellent book, Shelly Kagan defends a sophisticated answer to the question whether or not moral status comes in degrees. His answer is: yes and no, but mostly yes. In particular, he argues for a view that he calls 'limited hierarchy', according to which (a) people have higher moral status than animals (and some animals have higher moral status than others), but (b) all people have equal moral status. At first glance, this view seems as though it has no chance of working. But Kagan is a brilliant philosopher, and through a series of clever moves . . . he makes a surprisingly strong case for his view. . . an essential contribution to the literature. * Jeff Sebo, Mind * A thorough, insightful, accessible, and immensely rewarding discussion of the kind of relative status we should seek between humans and nonhumans. * Andrius Galisanka, Utilitas *

An excellent articulation of the view that while animals count, humans count for more * Joseph Lynch, Ethics * In this excellent book, Shelly Kagan defends a sophisticated answer to the question whether or not moral status comes in degrees. His answer is: yes and no, but mostly yes. In particular, he argues for a view that he calls 'limited hierarchy', according to which (a) people have higher moral status than animals (and some animals have higher moral status than others), but (b) all people have equal moral status. At first glance, this view seems as though it has no chance of working. But Kagan is a brilliant philosopher, and through a series of clever moves . . . he makes a surprisingly strong case for his view. . . an essential contribution to the literature. * Jeff Sebo, Mind * A thorough, insightful, accessible, and immensely rewarding discussion of the kind of relative status we should seek between humans and nonhumans. * Andrius Galisanka, Utilitas *

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Shelly Kagan is the Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale, where he has taught since 1995. He was an undergraduate at Wesleyan University and received his PhD in philosophy from Princeton University in 1982. Before coming to Yale, Professor Kagan taught at the University of Pittsburgh and at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of The Limits of Morality, Normative Ethics, and The Geometry of Desert. The videos of his undergraduate class on death (available online) have been popular around the world, and the book based on the course, Death, was a national bestseller in South Korea.

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