- Paperback: 496 pages
- Publisher: Open Gate Press; New edition edition (1 Jan 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747406332
- ISBN-13: 978-0747406334
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 581,973 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Stressing the connection between our behaviour towards each other, and our treatment of non-human species, the selections in this sourcebook uphold the conviction that no solution to the problem of human violence is possible until we accept the underlying unity of life, and what this unity, this kinship, demands of the human species. They explore the environmental conscience, making the case for a more holistic compassion and for more educational systems. At the same time they make a case for acknowledging the rights of other creatures, irrespective of consequential benefit to ourselves. Addison, Browning, da Vinci, Dostoevsky, Gandhi, Hardy, Murdoch, Sagan, Schweitzer, Shaw, Thoreau, Tolstoy, Wordsworth and Zola are among those people quoted. The book is suitable for the general reader as well as for students and teachers of humane education.
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Highly recommended,
By jwiacobbo@aol.com (Rhode Island, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Extended Circle: Dictionary of Humane Thought (Paperback)
This book of quotations is a fine introduction to the importance of ethical treatment of animals to many of the world's great thinkers - past and present. Words of wisdom from Shaw, Tolstoy, Salt, the Shelleys, and numerous other notables are within these pages. An excellent resource for students, writers, and other researchers to mine for literary and philosophical treasures.
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Indispensible reference book for writers, thinkers, and speakers,
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This review is from: The Extended Circle: Dictionary of Humane Thought (Paperback)
If you've been looking for a reference book that brings together the quotes and thoughts of people who are on the forefront of being able to express why compassion for all sentient individuals is so meaningful and important, then your search has ended with this book. This book details who influenced Gandhi's consciousness and why and reflects on why Peter Singer may be so misunderstood by some in our culture today as just two of countless examples of the depth of this book. Lots and lots of quotes in here....if you are like me, and you find poignant quotes to be an effective way to get a point through, you will not be at all disappointed. Get this book while you still can....it is becoming increasingly more difficult to find a copy.
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the extended circle,
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This review is from: The Extended Circle: Dictionary of Humane Thought (Paperback)
this book is a must for all interested in compassionate living, ecology,
spirituality. We all of us inter-are and unless we work from the roots our efforts to change things for the better will be futile. Side stepping animal exploitation and seeing other beings as individuals who share this planet with us we change the face of the globe. The end of animal exploitation means the end of the whole horrible animal farming business, the end of cruelty, the return of wilderness, the end of world poverty and the most major clean up act of pollution.
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