Neo-Confucianism Is a Philosophy Which Was Born TEST1 Essay

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particular book. The author in question is a man by the name of Steven Wise. Wise has written two quite notable books about animal rights and the debate about the same and the book under review, that being Drawing the Line, is one of those two books. The prior offering on the same general subject was called Rattling the Cage. The author of this report will focus on four chapters in particular when it comes to Drawing the Line, those being the second, third, eleventh and twelfth chapters. Those chapters pertain to a number of subjects including who gets liberty rights, Koko the gorilla and legal rights for non-human animals. While many people may assert that the animal rights argument is cut and dry and that no animal holds the same (or even a similar) status as humans, the debate is actually quite deep and expansive and Wise does a masterful job of laying out his case for the same.

Rhetorical Analysis

One thing that is prevalent in the four chapters in question (and the rest of the book, for that matter) is that Wise's position on animal rights is most certainly in favor of the animals. The animals he speaks of include everything from gorillas (Koko), parrots, dolphins and even his family dog. His rhetoric in the four chapters under review largely center on the fact that humans and non-human animals are not nearly as different and disparate as many might think.

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For example, Koko may seem like a gorilla to many and nothing more. However, she has been given a specific name, she is able to communicate with humans quite effectively through signing and that animal possesses a lot of the same faculties and abilities as humans. Wise is able to use his rhetoric strongly given that he is not analyzing and assessing these animals from afar. Rather than just assess the work of others, he is front and center with the animals he is looking at and is thus able to make first-hand observations (Wise, 2002).

The second, third and twelfth chapters follow much the same theme and that is the exploration of animal rights and how the field and study of the same is progressing, albeit fairly slowly and with a lot of skepticism. It is noted in the chapters that it is folly and perhaps majorly unethical to dismiss the rights of animals.….....

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