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Animals and the Expanding Moral Circle

open access: yes, 2017
This chapter considers the hypothesis that our treatment of animals is best accounted for by an “expanding moral circle.” This hypothesis is examined by looking at changes in attitudes to animals historically and across cultures. Different conceptions and formulations of this hypothesis are considered, in order to achieve greater clarity on the ...
T.J. Kasperbauer
exaly   +3 more sources

The expanding circle

2023
Abstract Only from the 18th century was the idea of fair play applied to the duties of decency which powerful people owed to others, an aspect of the humanitarian revolution, the revulsion against cruelty which became the guiding principle of the Enlightenment. Sociobiological theory helps explain how empathy can spread outwards from kin
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On Expanding Endomorphisms of the Circle

Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 1990
A problem posed by M. Shub and D. Sullivan on the classification of real Lebesgue measure-preserving endomorphisms of the circle is investigated. A new Jacobian invariant is introduced and complete measure-theoretic isomorphism invariants are given which are simultaneously measure-theoretic and topological in character.
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Expanding the moral circle: Inclusion and exclusion mindsets and the circle of moral regard

open access: yesJournal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2009
© 2009 Elsevier Inc. Publisher’s version is restricted access in accordance with the publisher’s policy.The human tendency to draw boundaries is pervasive. The ‘moral circle’ is the boundary drawn around those entities in the world deemed worthy of moral
Simon M Laham
exaly   +1 more source

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