THE CAVE Timothy Eves May 13‚ 1989: I sat in a cave‚ one of a multitude of prisoners. For dinner‚ as for so many other meals‚ we were served steak. Tendrils of steam rose from our plates like beckoning fingers. The aroma penetrated our nostrils; our mouths watered. We took a bite: the meat was so tender that it practically melted on our tongues. We groaned with pleasure. Where the meat came from we didn’t know—and didn’t care. We simply reveled in the flavor‚ the texture‚ the juice dribbling down
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species‚ solely because it is a member of your species. Singer’s has a utilitarian argument that prevents eating meat. His argument for not eating meat‚ his claim that animal experimentation is immoral‚ is based on his claim that these practices are speciesist. Singer’s Utilitarianism does give some sense of moral equality between humans and animals. He felt that animals have identical interests that are equally morally important as humans and that they must be treated with equal concern. Singer says:
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UNIT 2 – Religion and Life Issues. TOPIC 1 – RELIGION AND ANIMAL RIGHTS. Glossary Telos – End purpose (Aristotelian idea). Hierarchy of being - The idea of an ascending order of beings in the universe‚ inanimate matterplantsanimals with rational human beings at the top. Anthropocentric – Human centred. Speciesism – Discrimination in favour of one species‚ usually the human species‚ over another‚ especially in the exploitation or mistreatment of animals by humans. Sentient – Able to feel
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The Place of Nonhumans in Environmental Issues 1) Do you agree with singer that‚ morally‚ animals have an ‘equal consideration of interests’ with humans? Explain the reason for your answer. The suffering and happiness is the main moral principles of equal consideration of interests. Humans and non-humans both have the ability to feel pain and pleasure‚ so they should be considered equal in regards to these two aspects. However‚ due to ‘Speciesism’ which is our society’s way of thinking that non
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Animal Rights PHI 208 Understanding Philosophy June 1‚ 2014 According‚ to the animal right movement animals are equal to human in many ways than one‚ companionship‚ protector‚ and a medically alert animal. In recent years a number of oppressed groups have campaigned about Animals being equal to human. We should extend non-human rights to animals the same equality as a human is given the same consideration. Even‚ though the weakness of the utilitarian
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Annotated Bibliography Oanijah J. Adkins DeVry University Woodard‚ W. (2010). Persian sheep‚ hawksbill turtles and vodsels: The ethics of eating in some contemporary narratives. In W. Woodard (Ed.)‚ Australia: Australian Literary Studies. http://www.devry.library.edu/Ebsco host The essay is presented on how different novelists represented eating animals in their own short essays. One story is a depiction on the ethics of importing animals for slaughtering by presenting
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Although humans do have empathy for animals‚ animal inequality still remains and this is due to speciesism. In the ‘Equality for Animals?’‚ Peter Singer defines a speciesist as “anyone who gives greater weight to the interest of her own species than to the interests of other species‚ just as a racist is one who gives greater weight to the interest of her own race.” (Singer) Since animals lack the capacity for language
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started the animal rights movement. Singer argues that animal liberation today is analogous to racial and gender justice in the past. Just as people once thought it incredible that women or blacks should be treated as equal to white men‚ so now speciesists mock the idea that all animals should be given equal consideration. What equalizes all sentient beings is our ability to suffer. In that‚ we and animals are equal and deserving equal consideration of interests. Singer’s argument is a utilitarian
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Utilitarianism is a consequentialist ethical theory and therefore when evaluating ethics and the environment they would look at the end result and not necessarily the action. Utilitarianism is a teleological theory and would look at the purpose or the end goal of an action. With regards to deforestation the end goal is to create space for new homes‚ particularly in Brazil and therefore according to utilitarianism this is ethical because it brings great pleasure to those who are provided with homes
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When one thinks of History‚ one tends to consider Human History as the center of the subject‚ and to think of it as separated from the other species surrounding us. Not only is this commonly accepted‚ but we also think of Human History on the similar time frame. The focus is almost always given on relatively recent history‚ namely the last thousands years. In a previous paper‚ I argued that the beginning of agriculture and the Neolithic revolution were the most influential development in Human History
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