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Moral Significance of Animals
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Moral Significance of Animals
An examination of the philosophical debate on the attributes of human and animal sentience, pain and pleasure and consciousness.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages) |
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1994
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"Philosophers have considered the question of the moral significance of animals as opposed to the moral significance of human beings for centuries, and the issue has become more potent in the scientific age with concerns about animal experimentation along with other issues related to the treatment of animals for food, as work animals, and in any situation which could be classified as captivity and not as the natural state of the animal.In examining the moral significance of human beings, many philosophers differentiate between human beings and animals, emphasizing those qualities which separate human beings from animals, implying that these qualities prove moral significance and thus that the absence of these qualities would deny such significance. Inherent in the discussion of the moral..."
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