At ftrst glance, the work of Martin Heidegger would seem to be an unlikely source for ethical reflection on our relation to animals. First, it has long been regarded as problematical that Heidegger-whose work seems otherwise to have a comprehensive scope-did not write an "ethics" in the modem sense of the term, Le., did not arrive at a theory of moral obligation on the model of Kant or Mill or his own compatriot and early animal rights advocate, Leonard Nelson. Second, Heidegger's published works-including his recently published lectures, lecture courses, and seminars in the German PHILOSOPHY Between the Species
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