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By John Huss

ISBN-10: 0812698223

ISBN-13: 9780812698220

What makes people assorted from different animals, what people are entitled to do to different species, even if time go back and forth is feasible, what limits could be put on technological know-how and expertise, the morality and practicality of genetic engineering—these are only many of the philosophical difficulties raised via Planet of the Apes.
Planet of the Apes and Philosophy seems in any respect the deeper matters all for the Planet of the Apes tales. It covers the full franchise, from Pierre Boulle’s 1963 novel Monkey Planet to the profitable 2012 reboot Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The chapters replicate diversified issues of view, philosophical, spiritual, and scientific.
The moral kinfolk of people with animals are explored in different chapters, with interesting and incisive observations on animal intelligence, animal rights, and human-animal interplay. Genetic engineering is altering people, animals, and crops, elevating new questions about the morality of such interventions. The clinical popularity that people and chimps proportion ninety nine percentage in their genes makes a destiny during which non-human animals gather better value a different possibility.
Planet of the Apes is the main resonant of all clinical apocalypse myths.

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