Notes
Chapter 1
1.ForBentham’smoralphilosophy,seehisIntroductionto
thePrinciplesofMoralsandLegislation,andforSidgwick’s
seeTheMethodsofEthics, 1907 (thepassageisquotedfrom
the seventhedition; reprint,London: Macmillan, 1963), p.
- As examples of leading contemporary moral
philosophers who incorporate a requirement of equal
consideration of interests, see R.M. Hare, Freedom and
Reason(NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,1963),andJohn
Rawls,ATheoryofJustice(Cambridge:HarvardUniversity
Press, Belknap Press, 1972). For a brief account of the
essential agreement on this issue between these and other
positions, see R. M. Hare, “Rules of War and Moral
Reasoning,”Philosophy and Public Affairs1 (2) (1972).
2.Letter to Henry Gregoire, February 25, 1809.
- Reminiscences by Francis D. Gage, from Susan B.
Anthony,TheHistoryofWomanSuffrage,vol.1;thepassage
is tobe found in theextractin Leslie Tanner, ed., Voices
From Women’s Liberation(New York: Signet, 1970). - I owe the term “speciesism” to Richard Ryder. It has
becomeacceptedingeneralusesincethefirsteditionofthis
book, and nowappearsin The OxfordEnglish Dictionary,
second edition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989).
5.IntroductiontothePrinciplesofMoralsandLegislation,
chapter 17.