Philosophers Flashcards
who is David Hume?
7-animals can learn, started to argue on animal moral rights, was atheist
Who is Thomas Hobbs?
4- animals are not worthy of moral consideration because they cannot communicate.
Who is Rene Descarte?
3- animals=machines, father of modern phisioligy, if they cannot communicate they have no rights, animals have no emotion, ‘’ a furnace will have the same reaction have an animal when kicked.’’
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
2- animals have no immortal souls, humans have no direct obligation to animals and they only have instrumental value.
Who is Jeremy Bentham?
8- telling a lie is okay if its for moral reasons, the questions is do animals suffer?
Who is John Stuart Mill?
9- Happiness=pleasrue and absence of pain
Unhappiness=pain and privation o pleasure
Who is Immanuel Kant?
6-believed in the truth didn’t matter what the end result
John Locke
5- Started to change views on animals, animals have simple ideas and can remember things.
Aristotle
1- things are there for a purpose
god-man-animal-plant
human had adsolute authority overall animals
Peter Singer
10-wrote animal liberation, hapy life and fast and painless death, not agaisnt killing them can use them too.
Tom Regan
11- wrote ‘‘the case of animal rights’’
Ruth Harrison
wrote book ‘‘animal Machines’’
William Youatt
- wrote textbooks
- named some practices has being cruel and inhumane
- tried to recommend better ways of killing animals in slaughter houses
- used scientific methods
- started veterinarian college
- believed animals had feelings
