How Should Animals Be Treated?

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Title:	How Should Animals Be Treated?
Authors:	Lee, Jack
Contributors:	淡江大學通識與核心課程中心
Date:	2008-06-01
Issue Date:	2009-12-15 12:43:51 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Abstract:	Tom Regan's four explanations of animal rights are examined and rejected as inadequate. A superior interest based account of animal rights is proposed. This derives an animal's right to freedom from harm from interests that are implicit in the conscious life of the animal. According to Tom Regan, there are four possible accounts for dealing with the issue of how animals should be treated: (1) the ‘Kantian account’; (2) the ‘cruelty account’; (3) the ‘utilitarian account’; and (4) the ‘animal rights account’ (Regan, 2001 Regan, T. 2001. “Animal rights, humans wrongs”. In Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology, Edited by: Zimmerman, ME, Callicott, JB, Sessions, G, Warren, KJ and Clark, J. 41–55. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. , pp. 41–55). In this paper I propose to briefly survey these four accounts and argue for a fifth view, the ‘interests account’, which I believe is the most reasonable of the five accounts.
Relation:	Ethics, Place and Environment 11(2), pp.181-189
DOI:	10.1080/13668790802252363
Appears in Collections:	[center for general education and core curriculm ] Journal Article

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