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Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) on Animals

Animal Ethics

Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics , 7th ed. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1981], bk. 414 [italics in original] [first published in 1907; 1st ed. published in 1874])

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Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) on Duties to Animals

Animal Ethics

Intuitional moralists of repute have maintained this latter view: I think, however, that Common Sense is disposed to regard this as a hard-hearted paradox, and to hold with Bentham that the pain of animals is per se to be avoided. Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics , 7th ed. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1981], bk.

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Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) on Received Morality

Animal Ethics

Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics , 7th ed. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1981], bk. 30 [italics in original] [first published in 1907; 1st ed. published in 1874])

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W. D. Ross (1877-1971) on the Right and the Good

Animal Ethics

Ross, The Right and the Good [Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1988], 156 [italics in original; footnote omitted] [first published in 1930]) Note from KBJ: There are four categories: (1) right and morally good (i.e., The drawing of a rigid distinction between the right and the morally good frees us from such confusion. (W.

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W. D. Ross (1877-1971) on the Moral Significance of Pleasure and Pain

Animal Ethics

Ross, The Right and the Good [Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1988], 137 [first published in 1930]) Note from KBJ: Since the concepts of desert and good or bad disposition do not apply to animals (who are not moral agents), their pleasure is intrinsically good and their pain intrinsically bad.

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W. D. Ross (1877-1971) on Animal Rights

Animal Ethics

Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1988], 48-50 [italics in original; footnote omitted]) We have a tendency to think that not every duty incumbent on one person involves a right in another. (W. Ross, The Right and the Good [1930; repr.,