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Bentham on Animal Welfare


Full article: Bentham on animal welfare - Taylor & Francis Online

Bentham was the first Western philosopher to grant animals equal consideration from within a comprehensive, non-religious moral theory, and he was a staunch ...

“Can They Suffer?”: Bentham on our Obligations to Animals

According to Bentham, it is bad to cause unjustified suffering no matter how rational or talkative the sufferer is. A dog, a horse, and a human ...

Bentham on animal welfare - Taylor & Francis Online

Bentham was the first Western philosopher to grant animals equal consideration from within a comprehensive, non-religious moral theory, and he was a staunch ...

Bentham on animal welfare - Johannes Kniess - PhilPapers

Bentham was the first Western philosopher to grant animals equal consideration from within a comprehensive, non-religious moral theory, and he was a staunch ...

Jeremy Bentham on Animal Ethics | Daily Philosophy

Their complaint against Bentham is that causing suffering is not the only way to do wrong to an animal. Painlessly killing or experimenting on ...

Animal Welfare and Social Decisions: Is It Time to Take Bentham ...

It is found that a clear majority is of the opinion that animal welfare should indeed carry intrinsic weight in public decision making. Section 6 concludes that ...

Animal Rights Philosophy - Speaking of Research

Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being?” – Bentham (1789) – An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. However, ...

Jeremy Bentham on the suffering of non-human animals

The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

Utilitarianism and Nonhuman Animals

Jeremy Bentham was one of the first Western moral philosophers to take seriously the idea that species membership is morally irrelevant, and that anyone who can ...

[PDF] Bentham on animal welfare - Semantic Scholar

ABSTRACT Jeremy Bentham is often thought to have set the groundwork for the modern 'animal liberation' movement, but in fact he wrote little on the subject.

Animal Welfare: A Brief History - Fondation Droit Animal

During the Enlightenment, philosophers started to realize that the distinction was not clear-cut; animals had some rationality. Bentham (1823) pointed out that ...

Bentham on animal welfare - ResearchGate

Bentham was the first Western philosopher to grant animals equal consideration from within a comprehensive, non-religious moral theory, and he was a staunch ...

The Animal Sentience Debate: From BCE to the 21st Century - IAPWA

While Bentham's utilitarianism says it is acceptable to use animals for human means when producing any human benefit, Singer believes that pain ...

"Bentham and the “Famous Footnote”" by Randall Otto

... cruelty toward animals. He was not advocating for vegetarianism or an end to killing animals where they can be of benefit to human beings, where “we are the ...

How do animal rights fit into classical utilitarianism? - Reddit

Bentham was the first Western philosopher to grant animals equal consideration from within a comprehensive, non-religious moral theory, and ...

Animal welfare and society—Part 1, The viewpoints of a philosopher

Bentham did not, however, maintain that we should stop using and killing animals. On the contrary, his view was that, although the cognitive ...

Animal Rights: A History Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832, was an English philosopher and one of the founders of modern utilitarianism. He is regarded as one of the earliest proponents of ...

The Moral Status of Animals - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

According to the animal rights position, to treat an animal as a means to some human end, as many humans do when they eat animals or experiment ...

Animal Rights – Phronesis - Pressbooks Create

His critique represents an early version of utilitarianism utilized to argue for animal welfare. For Bentham, moral consideration is founded on the basis and ...

The ethics of animal experimentation - PMC

These were not the only views. Jeremy Bentham, writing at the end of the 18th century, suggested that, “The day may come when the rest of the animal creation ...