The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity

摘要: "The Great Ape Project" advances a radical and controversial idea. It calls for the immediate extension of moral community to include other great apes - chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans. defines new "community equals" which would accept certain basic principles or rights as governing our relations with each other, enforceable by law. The include: right life, protection individual liberty prohibition torture. Until now, this has only contained human beings: book argues inclusion apes. Project is series passionately argued but rigorous think-pieces. distinguished group contributors includes: Jane Goodall Douglas Adams (who write about meeting living apes), Richard Dawkins writes genetic similarities between humans Ryder, David Cantor, Jared Diamond (author best-selling Third Chimpanzee) Peter Singer.