Animal Rights: The Three Waves

Forty years ago academician C.P. Snow noticed and described a gap growing between science professors on the one hand and humanities professors on the other. Studying life with different questions and methods and even languages, each set seemed to be living in a different world. In a time of confidence and excitement caused by the introduction of antibiotics, vaccines, space probes, and electronic gadgets, scientists were "in" and humanities professors "out."

isara solutions, 2019

In today's society, we often interpret numerous aspects of our lives as properties and objects, including the lives of those around us. Because of this, animals are often subject to the negligence and whims of humans. Many animals lack the legal protection they deserve simply because they are not an interest to society. While anti-cruelty laws are in place to protect some animals, this is only true for animals that are regarded with value. The legal system disproportionately attributes legal privileges to some animals over others.

2010

University of North Bengal, 2020

Animals have always played a great role in our life but the literature on social justice, and social justice movements themselves, routinely ignore animals as legitimate subject of social justice. The reason is very clear that the place of animals in human morality was absent and often they consider them as the property and use it however they want. Prior there were no laws; Aristotle and Aquinas believed animals exist to serve human requirement and the ethical treatment of animals were appears to be optional. But after the rise of utilitarianism with the idea of pleasure and pain, including animal pain promotes the humane treatment of animals and the era of animal welfare movement started. Against this background, the author will highlight how the level of enlightenment within our society has increased in the last several years and will examine various philosophical theories pertaining to animal rights that have evolved over a period of time that made the emergence of animal right as a separate legal discipline.

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics , 2005

I argue that animals have rights in the sense of having valid claims, which might turn out to be actual rights as society advances and new scientific-technological developments facilitate finding alternative ways of satisfying our vital interests without using animals. Animals have a right to life, to liberty in the sense of freedom of movement and communication, to subsistence, to relief from suffering , and to security against attacks on their physical existence. Animals' interest in living, freedom, subsistence, and security are of vital importance to them, and they do not belong to us; they are not the things we have already possessed by virtue of our own nature.

1987

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2005

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 1986

I regard myself as an advocate of animal rights -as a part of the animal rights movement. That movement, as I conceive it, is committed to a number of goals, including:

Relying on a comparison between the British and French experiences, the present work retraces the various strands of the animal protection movement, from their origins to their continuing impact on current debates. Inextricably linked to the rise of philanthropy, and well established long before the birth of the ecology movement, the story of the collective mobilizations behind the struggle for animal rights sheds light on several crucial processes in our social and political history: changes in sensibilities and socially approved emotions; the definition of what constitutes legitimate violence; the establishment of norms designed to change what constitutes morally acceptable practices; rivalry between elites having differing conceptions of the forms authority should take; the influence of religious belief on militant activities; and the effects of gender discrimination.