The Universal Kinship

The Universal Kinship

First edition cover
Author	J. Howard Moore
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	Print
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.