Eating Meat and Reading Diamond
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2008
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Gleeson, A.
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Philosophical Papers, 2008; 37(1):157-175
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A Gleeson
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Here is a very common philosophical opinion: being human plays no important role in moral thinking. Call this the anti-humanist thesis. I argue that a thirty-year old paper by Cora Diamond, ‘Eating Meat and Eating People' (‘EMEP') can help us to see that the anti-humanist thesis is false.