Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Here are the posts from September 2004.'

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

Once a definite social movement got under way in the West with its objective the restricting of man's treatment of animals, it moved with relative rapidity. Moral philosophers began to regard it as an obvious truth that it is wrong to treat animals cruelly.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 6, 2014

Here are the posts from August 2004.'

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 388 [first edition published in 1983]) The rights view merely requires moral consistency in this regard. (

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Animal Ethics

JULY 1, 2014

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

According to a great many philosophers and jurisprudents, animals do not have rights for the simple reason that they are not the kinds of beings who can have rights.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 1, 2014

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Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2008

In the popular mediaeval tradition, as contrasted with official theology, there are many legends which associate saintliness and martyrdom with kindness to animals: even Jerome has his lion, to say nothing of Androcles. Vicious animals in that tradition were like the Gadarene swine , inhabited by demons.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 1, 2014

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APRIL 1, 2014

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FEBRUARY 1, 2014

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MARCH 1, 2014

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Animal Ethics

MAY 25, 2008

One restriction on the absolutism of man's rule over Nature is now generally accepted: moral philosophers and public opinion agree that it is morally impermissible to be cruel to animals.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 1, 2014

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AUGUST 24, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 361 [italics in original] [first edition published in 1983]) Since this will require increased human intervention in human practices that threaten rare or endangered species (e.g.,

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Animal Ethics

MAY 28, 2012

With the argument of the present chapter serving as the backdrop, the conclusion we reach is that to deny consciousness or a mental life to mammalian animals is an expression of human chauvinism. (

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2012

To secure the philosophical foundation for animal rights requires abandoning utilitarianism. ( Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 315 [italics in original; ellipsis added] [first edition published in 1983])

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 15, 2012

The mere size of the relative population of the species to which a given animal belongs makes no moral difference to the grounds for attributing rights to that individual animal or to the basis for determining when that animal's rights may be justifiably overridden or protected. (

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 27, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 174-5 [italics in original; ellipsis added; endnote omitted] [first edition published in 1983]) Moral agents (rational beings) are ends in themselves. (

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 12, 2012

Quite the contrary, just as would be true in the case of my son, what we should say is that part of the harm done to these animals by factory farming is that they do not know this. (

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

per day (counting the leap-year day of 2004). I started this blog four years ago today. Where did the time go? There have been 74,220 visitors to the blog. That's an average of 50.8 The blog's readership has increased each year.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

But what we have accomplished up to this time must be multiplied a thousandfold if the great battles are to be joined and won." ( Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 399-400 [ellipsis added] [first edition published in 1983])

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Animal Ethics

JULY 8, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 197-8 [italics in original; endnote omitted] [first edition published in 1983])

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Eventually these interests brought me to Joel Feinberg [1926-2004] and Tom Regan, and that opened up my philosophical world. That book exposed me to natural history (Aldo Leopold, Henry Beston, and Stephen Gould), wilderness (Roderick Nash), and moral philosophy (John Rodman and Peter Singer).

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

The law was enacted to prevent the sale of videos depicting wanton cruelty to animals, such as “crush videos” in which a scantily clad woman, whose face is unseen, kills helpless animals such as rabbits and kittens by stomping on them with spike heels or her bare feet.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 14, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 267-8 [ellipsis added] [first edition published in 1983]) If there are moral rights, they do not "come to be" in the way legal rights do. (

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2008

By comparing the common mind-set that has produced both the past injustices against humans and the current abuses of animals, we can and do inspire debate and convince many people that it is a human obligation to speak out against injustice to all beings. Animal suffering and human suffering are undeniably interconnected.

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