Nature red in tooth and claw
Subtitle: theism and the problem of animal suffering
By: Michael J. Murray.
Publisher: New York; Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780199237272
Subjects: Good and evil; Theism; Animal welfare
Description: "While the problem of evil remains a perennial challenge to theistic belief, little attention has been paid to the special problem of animal pain and suffering. This absence is especially conspicuous in our Darwinian era when theists are forced to confront the fact that animal pain and suffering has gone on for at least tens of millions of years, through billions of animal generations. Evil of this sort might not be especially problematic if the standard of explanations for evil employed by theists could be applied in this instance as well. But there is the central problem: all or most of the explanations for evil cited by theists seem impotent to explain the reality of animal pain and suffering through evolutionary history Nature Red in Tooth and Claw addresses the evil of animal pain and suffering directly, scrutinizing explanations that have been offered for such evil."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Problems of and explanations for evil; title: Neo-cartesianism; title: Animal suffering and the fall; title: Nobility, flourishing, and immortality : animal pain and animal; title: Well-being; title: Natural evil, nomic regularity, and animal suffering; title: Chaos, order, and evolution; title: Combining CDs.