Animal's death in the Philosophy of Tom Regan
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animal ethics, Tom Regan, morality, nonhuman animals, deathAbstract
A premature death of a self-conscious being, even if completely painless, is not morally indifferent. And it does not matter whether the creature is human. Tom Regan was one of the first to adopt and justify this position, which has become quite common in animal studies since then. In this article, I present Regan’s argumentation, and—in the process of doing so—I describe the two most important principles of the Rights View (the Respect Principle and the Harm Principle), as well as the relations between the categories of moral agents, moral patients, and subjects of a life. Furthermore, the article offers a reconstruction and an analysis of the problem of the ethical dimension of the death of an animal as an individual. Finally, the article provides an outline of the consequences of the hypothetical adoption of the Rights View for the common practices towards nonhuman animals, currently permissible by the law.
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