8236 | Avoid the animals you are going to eat, as it is hard once you have got to know them [Mengzi (Mencius)] |
6005 | Animals are dangerous and nourishing, and can't form contracts of justice [Hermarchus, by Sedley] |
20857 | Justice is irrelevant to animals, because they are too unlike us [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius] |
1779 | We don't have obligations to animals as they aren't like us [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius] |
1868 | The world was made as much for animals as for man [Celsus] |
17215 | Animals feel, but that doesn't mean we can't use them for our pleasure and profit [Spinoza] |
19753 | Both men and animals are sentient, which should give the latter the right not to be mistreated [Rousseau] |
3730 | Non-rational beings only have a relative value, as means rather than as ends [Kant] |
21423 | Men can only have duties to those who qualify as persons [Kant] |
21424 | Cruelty to animals is bad because it dulls our empathy for pain in humans [Kant] |
20280 | Large mature animals are more rational than babies. But all that really matters is - can they suffer? [Bentham] |
21376 | Philosophy treats animals as exploitable things, ignoring the significance of their lives [Schopenhauer] |
14882 | Protest against vivisection - living things should not become objects of scientific investigation [Nietzsche] |
5915 | Rights can be justly claimed, so animals have no rights, as they cannot claim any [Ross] |
4133 | Speciesism isn't like racism, because the former implies a viewpoint which belongs to no one [Williams,B] |
20283 | Killing a chimp is worse than killing a human too defective to be a person [Singer] |
21023 | We should respect animals in the way that we respect the animal nature in humans [Nussbaum] |
21024 | It may be no harm to kill an animal which cannot plan for its future [Nussbaum] |
21022 | The Capabilities Approach sees animals as agents, not just as having feelings [Nussbaum] |
4295 | We favour our own animals over foreign ones because we see them as fellow citizens [Scruton] |
4296 | Brutal animal sports are banned because they harm the personality of the watcher [Scruton] |
4263 | Many of the stranger forms of life (e.g. worms) interest us only as a species, not as individuals [Scruton] |
4268 | Animals command our sympathy and moral concern initially because of their intentionality [Scruton] |
4276 | An animal has individuality if it is nameable, and advanced animals can respond to their name [Scruton] |
4277 | I may avoid stepping on a spider or flower, but fellow-feeling makes me protect a rabbit [Scruton] |
4278 | Lucky animals are eaten by large predators, the less lucky starve, and worst is death by small predators [Scruton] |
4279 | We can easily remove the risk of suffering from an animal's life, but we shouldn't do it [Scruton] |
4288 | Many breeds of animals have needs which our own ancestors planted in them [Scruton] |
4289 | Sheep and cattle live comfortable lives, and die an enviably easy death [Scruton] |
4291 | Letting your dog kill wild rats, and keeping rats for your dog to kill, are very different [Scruton] |
4292 | Concern for one animal may harm the species, if the individual is part of a bigger problem [Scruton] |
4293 | Introducing a natural means of controlling animal population may not be very compassionate [Scruton] |
4294 | Animals are outside the community of rights, but we still have duties towards them [Scruton] |