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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 recognising animals' natural rights and condemns the various forms of cruelty inflicted upon them in human activities.
Actor, animal rights activist, narrator of Earthlings (2005) and Dominion (2018) [126] James Rachels: 1941–2003 United States Philosopher [127] Tom Regan: 1938–2017 United States Professor emeritus of philosophy at North Carolina State University, author of The Case for Animal Rights (1983) [128] Qiu Renzong: ca. 1933 China: Bioethicist [129]
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.
He draws on Plutarch's criticism of the Stoics' cruelty towards animals to counter arguments, including that of Clodius of Naples from his lost work Against the Vegetarians. [3] Porphyry follows the ascetic supposition of Plotinus that gratification of the body turns the soul away from true good and the intellectual perfection of the soul. [6]
Gervais has long been an advocate for animals, and he's continuing to walk the walk this month by donating a portion of proceeds from his upcoming shows in New York City and Los Angeles to various ...
Cobbe applied her moral theory to animal rights, first in The Rights of Man and the Claims of Brutes from 1863. She argued that humans may do harm to animals in order to satisfy real wants but not from mere "wantonness". [19] For example, humans may eat meat but not kill birds for feathers to decorate hats.
Tom Regan (/ ˈ r eɪ ɡ ən /; [1] November 28, 1938 – February 17, 2017) was an American philosopher who specialized in animal rights theory. He was professor emeritus of philosophy at North Carolina State University, where he had taught from 1967 until his retirement in 2001.
Joan Dunayer is an American philosopher and abolitionist animal rights advocate. She is the author of two books, Animal Equality (2001) and Speciesism (2004). She has argued for "species equality" the view that all animals including insects should be given rights.