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Tom Regan
Title: Tom Regan
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1323 | Pages: 5.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Tom Regan
Tom Regan- „The Case for Animal Rights“
Although the animal rights-movement was originally started by Peter Singer, it was Tom Regan who came up with the most uncompromising ideas and gave the movement its name. In his book, which came out under the University of California Press in 1983, Regan argues that humans and animals have equal inherent rights. However, before explaining his own philosophy, he explains four other theories that exist about animal rights. These …showed first 75 words of 1323 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1323 total…have an intrinsic value, he does not embrace this idea fully in his theory. He does not account for any kind of being without any needs or wants (such as a person who is in a coma) to still have an intrinsic value. Although this person is not clearly an experiencing subject, he or she should still be considered to have an inherent value as one might never know when that person would regain consciousness.
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