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| Author | J. Howard Moore |
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| Language | English |
| Series | International Library of Social Science |
| Subject | Animal rights, ethics, evolution |
| Publisher | Charles H. Kerr & Co. |
Publication date | 1906 (reissued edition, 1916; reissued edition, 1992) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 329 |
| OCLC | 3704446 |
The Universal Kinship is a 1906 book by American zoologist and philosopher J. Howard Moore. In the book, Moore advocates for the doctrine of Universal Kinship, a secular sentiocentric philosophy, which mandates the ethical consideration and treatment of all sentient beings based on Darwinian principles of shared evolutionary kinship, and a universal application of the Golden Rule, a challenge to existing anthropocentric hierarchies and ethics. The book built on arguments Moore first made in Better-World Philosophy, published in 1899, and was followed by The New Ethics in 1907. The Universal Kinship was endorsed by a number of contemporary figures including Henry S. Salt, Mark Twain and Jack London, Eugene V. Debs and Mona Caird.