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Animals, Men and Morals: An Inquiry into the Maltreatment of Non-humans (1971) is a collection of essays on animal rights, edited by Oxford philosophers Stanley and Roslind Godlovitch, both from Canada, and John Harris from the UK.
Henry S. Salt included Gompertz's book in his bibliography of animal rights, within his 1892 work Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress. [2] Gary L. Francione and Anne E. Charlton describe the book as "one of the most progressive and radical books on animal ethics ever written, yet is virtually unknown". [3]
The animal rights movement, sometimes called the animal liberation, animal personhood, or animal advocacy movement, is a social movement that advocates an end to the rigid moral and legal distinction drawn between human and non-human animals, an end to the status of animals as property, and an end to their use in the research, food, clothing, and entertainment industries.
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It is often said that Marx conceived of humans as homo faber, referring to Benjamin Franklin's definition of "man as the tool-making animal" – that is, as "man, the maker", [25] though he never used the term himself. It is generally held that Marx's view was that productive activity is an essential human activity, and can be rewarding when ...
An Essay on Humanity to Animals is a 1798 book by English theologian Thomas Young.It advocates for the ethical treatment and welfare of animals.It argues for recognizing animals' natural rights and condemns the various forms of cruelty inflicted upon them in human activities.
Among the fifty-two Encyclopedia entries, The Case of the Animals versus Man is the longest and the only one presented as a fable. [28] In the early fourteenth century, the story was translated into Hebrew as Igeret Baale Haim by Kalonymus ben Kalonymus. [24] The Hebrew version has been translated and adapted into English for a popular audience ...
Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all sentient animals have moral worth independent of their utility to humans, and that their most basic interests—such as avoiding suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings. [2]