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. That, on the whole, is the Christian tradition. Controversies no doubt remain.

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Morals 2004 Animal Suffering Vivisection 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

There are also some things we cannot learn by using humans, if we respect their rights. The rights view merely requires moral consistency in this regard. ( 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])

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Science Los Angeles 2004 Morals 40

Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2012

The initial attractiveness of utilitarianism as a moral theory on which to rest the call for the better treatment of animals was noted in an earlier context. Because animals are sentient (i.e., Because animals are sentient (i.e., But utilitarianism is not the theory its initial reception by the animal rights movement may have suggested.

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Los Angeles Animal Rights Movement Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

Animal Ethics

JUNE 11, 2008

So far McCloskey is on solid ground, but one can quarrel with his denial that any animals but humans have interests. We must now ask ourselves for whose sake ought we to treat (some) animals with consideration and humaneness? Rather his job is to look out for the interests of the animal and make sure no one denies it its due.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Moral philosophers began to regard it as an obvious truth that it is wrong to treat animals cruelly. It should be observed, however, that if our analysis of the situation is correct, then this change in moral attitude resulted in a restriction of rights rather than an extension of them.

Animal Cruelty 40

Animal Cruelty 2004 Cruelty Vivisection 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

In respect to having rights, animals are more like pebbles and sunbeams than they are like full-fledged human beings. Joel Feinberg , "Human Duties and Animal Rights," chap. Joel Feinberg , "Human Duties and Animal Rights," chap.

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Animal Rights 2004 Rights Animal 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

"The French have already discovered," Bentham wrote, "that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. As so often, the Benthamites could join hands with the evangelicals. It may come one day to be recognised that the number of legs.

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