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The case for animal rights

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18 Reviews
University of California Press, 2004 - Nature - 425 pages
"Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Bentham, Mill: all thought seriously about the role of animals in our lives. But not until Tom Regan published The Case for Animal Rights did the world possess a theory of the rights of animals. When philosophy students come to this issue hundreds of years from now, they will read the greats in light of the arguments presented here."--Gary L. Comstock, editor of Life Science Ethics

"Tom Regan's now classic Case For Animal Rights blends careful argument with intense moral concern. For two decades, where Regan has been taken seriously, animals have been better off and people have become better persons. This new edition is a welcome sign of this influence continuing."--Holmes Rolston, III, University Distinguished Professor, Colorado State University

"A bold and nuanced analysis of the inherent value and moral standing of nonhuman animals. It may also be the most consistent and unyielding defense of animal rights."--Tom L. Beauchamp, Georgetown University

"The most powerful and plausible consideration of the issues and defense of animal rights yet to be produced (or likely to be)."--Richard Wasserstrom

"By far the best work on the subject, and will continue to be the definitive work for years to come . . . .[It is] destined to become a 'modern classic' in the field of ethics, alongside Rawls's A Theory of Justice and Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia."--Alastair S. Gunn, coauthor of Hold Paramount

Praise for the first edition:

"Unquestionably the best work yet to appear in its field, surpassing even Peter Singer's famous Animal Liberation in originality, thoroughness, and rigor."--Choice

"The Case for Animal Rights is beyond question the most important philosophical contribution to animal rights and is a major work in moral philosophy."--Animal Law Review

"The most powerful and plausible consideration of the issues and defense of animal rights yet to be produced (or likely to be)."--Richard Wasserstrom, author of Philosophy and Social Issues (1980)
  

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Review: The Case for Animal Rights: Updated with a New Preface

User Review  - Earl Biringer - Goodreads

There is only one rational basis for thinking about ethics, and that is the reality of suffering. Regan does not realize that it is irrelevant whether his rights-based theory is internally coherent ... Read full review

Review: The Case for Animal Rights: Updated with a New Preface

User Review  - Heather Browning - Goodreads

Regan makes a solid case for the moral consideration of animals, though I find the discourse of 'rights' unnecessary. The book is long but thorough, covering many issues to do with ethics, moral ... Read full review

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Contents

Preface to the 2004 Edition
xi
Preface to the First Edition
li
Acknowledgments Ivii
1
THE COMPLEXITY OF ANIMAL AWARENESS
34
ANIMAL WELFARE
82
ETHICAL THINKING AND THEORY
121
INDIRECT DUTY VIEWS
150
DIRECT DUTY VIEWS
195
JUSTICE AND EQUALITY
232
4 Inherent Value and Reverence for Life
241
Utilitarianism and Justice 7 8 Defending the Respect Principle
247
THE RIGHTS VIEW
266
IMPLICATIONS OF THE RIGHTS VIEW
330
Epilogue
399
Index
419
Copyright

5 Utilitarianism and Speciesism
226

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Empty Cages: Tom Regan Essay
That's what I have been exploring over the past ten years or so in my essays and talks and, most recently, in my books, The Case for Animal Rights and The ...
www.tomregan-animalrights.com/ regan_rites.html

The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan
The Case for Animal Rights makes the case--clearly, forcefully and thoroughly--that animals have a basic moral right to be treated in ways that show respect ...
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Animal Rights
Regan's The Case for Animal Rights (1983) is regarded by many scholars and ... Singer, who wrote a review of Regan’s book The Case for Animal Rights for the ...
www.lib.ncsu.edu/ exhibits/ regan/ animalrights.htm

Carrie Shea – Summary of Regan, The Case for Animal Rights ...
Carrie Shea – Summary of Regan, The Case for Animal Rights, Chapter 1& 2, pp. 1-81. Chapter 1. The subject of chapter 1 might be summarized as an ...
web.utk.edu/ ~nolt/ courses/ 646/ Regan1-2.htm

JSTOR: The Case for Animal Rights.
This and other questions are certain to be debated; but whatever the outcome, there can be no doubt that The Case for Animal Rights is an impressive ...
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Tom Regan on THE CASE FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS
But neither do we need to know, if we are to make the case for animal rights. We do not need to know, for example, how many people are eligible to vote in ...
www.webster.edu/ ~corbetre/ philosophy/ animals/ regan-text.html

10/3 Reading: Regan “The Case for Animal Rights” (1985)
10/3 Reading: Regan “The Case for Animal Rights” (1985). Arguments against animal rights. Primary claim: Animal cannot have rights directly – if they have ...
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The Case for Animal Rights, by Tom Regan
When it comes to the case for animal rights, then, what we need to know is ... That, very roughly, is the shape and feel of the case for animal rights. ...
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thevegetariansite.com: Philosophy: Tom Regan
Tom Regan establishes the rights of animals in his monumental philosophical work, The Case For Animal Rights. As individuals with complex mental lives, ...
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1 The Case for Animal Rights There are various philosophic schools of thought that may be used to argue the promotion of animal rights. ...
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About the author (2004)

Tom Regan is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at North Carolina State University and is the author (with Carl Cohen) of The Animal Rights Debate (2001) and Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights (2004).

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