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Animal Ethics
MARCH 27, 2009
For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. ARGUMENTS FOR MORAL VEGETARIANISM A variety of arguments have been given for vegetarianism. Sometimes they take such a sketchy form that it is not completely clear they are moral arguments. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism.
Animal Ethics
APRIL 23, 2008
For every person, being a subject of interests, has rights, i.e., has a claim to respect of his interests under the law of equality of persons. The defining characteristic of moral agency is autonomy ("rational self-determination"). His "subject of rights" is what philosophers now call a moral patient.
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