Toni Morrison’s goal is to take what has been considered the standard of approaching American literature and to broaden it. Though her argument is applied to American literature, this argument is not specific to solely American literature. Morrison gained another perspective of American literature when examining the psyche of the writer and how language operates in the imagination of the writer. Morrison describes her experiences reading, “I would like it to be clear at the outset that I do not bring to these matters solely or even principally the tools of a literary critic. As a reader (before becoming a writer) I read as I had been taught to do” (3). When Morrison first read these literary traditions, she read them as a reader, and she was not yet a writer. She read American literature under the guidance of a literary critic or with a series of professors in her American literature classes. She was guided through the dominant approaches, ideas, ...
What’s the appropriate punishment for human harms of animals? Should punishment consider animals as morally equivalent to humans? What would a world look like in which a chimp killer was seen for being a murderer? In this paper, I will defend a restorative approach to human harms against animals. Some may argue that what qualifies a being for moral and equal consideration is rationality; however, moral consideration is given to beings who do not meet this qualification. Consider the case of a mentally disabled individual. She is given equal consideration to any rational human. This holds true in the case of babies as well, although there still lies potential for rationality in the future. Like rationality, other characteristics are not specific to all and only humans or all and only animals. This inability to separate all humans from all animals is known ...
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