The Moral Relationship of the Human and the Non-Human Animals in Light of Ethology
The Moral Relationship of the Human and the Non-Human Animals in Light of Ethology

Author(s): Alexander Krémer
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Trivent Publishing
Keywords: animal experiments; moral agents, human ethology; Vilmos Csányi; Immanuel Kant; Tom Regan; Peter Singer
Summary/Abstract: Animal suffering is an obvious consequence of different animalexperiments and factory farming. Everybody can observe the terrible online data andimages on this issue. From the birth of bioethics in the 1960s, it has become clearthat animals should get more clear-cut defence than human beings since they cannotprotest and give informed consent. The Animal Rights Movement became strongerwhen Peter Singer published Animal Liberation in 1975. Tom Regan went furtherthan Singer with his speciesism when he claimed that animals are “subject of a life”and they have moral rights. This chapter will show, in the light of modern ethology,that these views (Singer and Regan) cannot be founded philosophically, and that weshould return to Immanuel Kant’s standpoint. It is good enough to determine ourmoral relationship to animals, and above all, it is a provable standpoint.

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