Engel: Do Animals Have Rights, and Does It Matter if They Don’t? (Lecture video)


	Engel: Do Animals Have Rights, and Does It Matter if They Don’t? (Lecture video)

Rasmus

6-5-2007 6:20 PM

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ethics, ethik, tierethik, tierrecht, animal rights

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11-22-2007 12:14 PM

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Like environmental ruination, there is the teleloogical argument that it is bad for humanity, and the deeper deontological sadness that it is just downright bad, And there is both.

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