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Defending Animal Rights
Tom Regan
出版University of Illinois Press, 2001
主題Nature / Animal RightsPhilosophy / Ethics & Moral PhilosophyReligion / Ethics
ISBN025202611X9780252026119
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NNPYOWKvAp4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The animal rights debate is a divisive, enduring topic in normative ethical theory. Addressing key issues in this sometimes acrimonious debate, Tom Regan responds thoughtfully to his critics while dismantling the conception that "all and only" human beings are worthy of the moral status that is the basis of rights. Systematically unraveling claims that human beings are rational and therefore entitled to superior moral status, Regan defends the inherent value of all individuals who are "subjects of a life" and decries the speciesism that pretends to separate human from nonhuman animals. Independent of any benefits humans might derive from exploiting them, Regan shows that animals have no less value in themselves than do human beings. -- From publisher's description.