Animal Rights Versus The Food Production Industry.
Broadly construed, animal rights is an area of inquiry and debate that focuses on a variety of approaches to assessing the moral status of nonhuman animals. One of the main approaches in contemporary scholarship is deontological and argues for strict rights for animals on the grounds that they are subjects-of-a-life (Tom Regan) and thus possess inherent worth; such views often seek to expand.
This article considers a theory that most philosophers view as deriving historically from the work of the ancient Athenian-Macedonian philosopher Aristotle. It shows how virtue ethics promotes the paradigm that we should think about moral rights and wrongs in our treatment of animals in terms of virtues and vices rather than in terms of consequences or rights and duties.
Rights theories: Different positions. Rights are safeguards of interests that people have. Rights may protect someone’s interest in doing something without interference, in having access to a certain good, in not being harmed by others or in being benefited by others (see the rights approach).Rights theories concern what types of rights belong to or should be given to whom and why.
Virtue Ethics and Animal Law ABSTRACT This essay explores virtue ethical concepts in the context of animal law theory and practice. For reasons discussed in the essay, virtue ethics may not, on its own, serve as an adequate foundation for gen- eral anticruelty statutes, but it may have application in those contexts in which sufficient sharing of values enables participants in legal re-form to.
Regan and Animal Rights. Magenta Dumpit April 29, 2013 Ethics Final Paper Animal’s Have Rights Animals everyday are being treated inhumanely and with cruelty due to the unconscious actions of humans. In regards to valuing animal life Regan states that, “the fundamental wrong is the system that allows us to view animals as our resources, here for us-- to be eaten, or surgically manipulated.
The purpose of this website is to provide individuals with an introduction to Animal Ethics and Philosophy, specifically, the different ethical frameworks one might embrace when promoting an animal liberation ethic. Ethical Theory, also referred to as normative ethics, is the branch of ethics that is concerned with determining how one ought to act.
Virtue was founded in March 2018 to help educate and inspire the public to take a closer look at our treatment of animals and bring us closer to a more peaceful and vegan world.