Animal Suffering, Examples and Vivisection

John Passmore (1914-2004) on Animal Suffering

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 24, 2008

They had a direct effect on seventeenth-century behavior as manifested, for example, in the popularity of public vivisections, not as an aid to scientific discovery but simply as a technical display. These teachings, it should be observed, were more than metaphysical speculations.

Suffering

Suffering Animal Suffering 2004 Vivisection

John Passmore (1914-2004) on the Moral Status of Animals

Animal Ethics

MAY 25, 2008

In other words, what they hated—and by no means perversely—was the enjoyment of animal suffering; to the mere fact that the bears suffered as a consequence of human action they were indifferent. That, on the whole, is the Christian tradition. Controversies no doubt remain.

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Morals 2004 Animal Suffering Vivisection

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John Passmore (1914-2004) on Animal Suffering

John Passmore (1914-2004) on the Moral Status of Animals

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