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The Case For Animal Rights, by Tom Regan
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- 331
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Used Hardcover, First Edition 1983
"Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Bentham, Mill: all thought seriously about the role of animals in our lives. But not until Tom Regan published The Case for Animal Rights did the world possess a theory of the rights of animals. When philosophy students come to this issue hundreds of years from now, they will read the greats in light of the arguments presented here."
—Gary L. Comstock, editor of Life Science Ethics
The Case for Animal Rights is an acknowledged classic of moral philosophy. Here, Regan argues that the fundamental wrong is the system in which we view animals as our resources, here for us — to be eaten, or surgically manipulated, or exploited for sport or money. His position is that if we accept this view of animals - as our resources - the rest is as predictable as it is regrettable. “Then why worry about their loneliness, their pain, their death? Since animals exist for us, to benefit us in one way or another, what harms them really doesn't matter — or matters only if it starts to bother us.”
The animal rights movement is a part of the human rights movement that grounds the rights of animals along with the rights of humans. The fate of animals is in our hands. Thus those involved in the animal rights movement are partners in the struggle to secure respect for human rights - the rights of women, for example, or minorities, or workers. The animal rights movement is cut from the same moral cloth as these.
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