Name: A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat all Beings With Compassion
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Author: Matthieu Ricard
ISBN: 9781611804744

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A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat all Beings With Compassion

Type

Physical Book

Author

Matthieu Ricard

Publisher

Shambhala

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

360

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.0 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.5

ISBN13

9781611804744

Synopsis "A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat all Beings With Compassion"

A powerful and wide-ranging indictment of the treatment of animals by humans--and an eloquent plea for animal rights.Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do. In a compelling appeal to reason and human kindness, Matthieu Ricard here takes the arguments from his best-sellers Altruism and Happiness to their logical conclusion: that compassion toward all beings, including our fellow animals, is a moral obligation and the direction toward which any enlightened society must aspire. He chronicles the appalling sufferings of the animals we eat, wear, and use for adornment or “entertainment,” and submits every traditional justification for their exploitation to scientific evidence and moral scrutiny. What arises is an unambiguous and powerful ethical imperative for treating all of the animals with whom we share this planet with respect and compassion.

Matthieu Ricard

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Matthieu Ricard is a renowned writer and French Buddhist monk. In 1967, during his first trip to India, he met spiritual teachers, such as Kangyur Rinpoche.

After completing his thesis in Cellular Genetics at the Pasteur Institute, under the direction of Nobel laureate François Jacob, he decided to settle in the Himalayas. He studied Buddhism and photographed life in monasteries, as well as the art and landscapes of Tibet, Bhutan, and Nepal.

Ordained as a monk in 1978, he has been, since 1989, the French interpreter for the Dalai Lama. He participates in the research of the Mind & Life Institute and has founded the humanitarian association Karuna-Shechen. He lives in the Shechen Monastery in Nepal.

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