singer on animal welfare and protection

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christian influences on animal rights

  • most Christian churches believe animal experimentation is ok if there is a good reason for conducting the experiment and animals are not put through unnecessary pain.

  • Christians who see St Francis as a role model may possibly be opposed to all animal experimentation as he believed that animals have souls too, just like humans.

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utilitarian influences on animal rights

  • Bentham’s introduction to the principles of morals and legislation: “the question is not, Can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?”

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singer’s context

  • utilitarian philosopher

  • famous for championing the cause of animal rights and the claim that we are speciesist in our treatment of animals

  • agrees w bentham → animals are of moral significance

  • introduces notion of personhood into his version of preference utilitarianism

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speciesism

  • singer argues that animals are of moral significance

  • a person is a being that can value its own existence and know that it has a future. he argues that many animals are persons in this sense (e.g. chimps taught ASL)

  • regards speciesism as being as immoral as racism