Animal Rights

Derechos de los animales

Roger Scruton ()
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Roger Scruton: University of Oxford

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Abstract: The strangest cultural shift within the liberal worldview, one that promises to sow even more confusion than liberalism inherently requires: the growing advocacy of "animal rights." Properly understood, the concept of a right—and the attendant ideas of duty, responsibility, law, and obedience—enshrines what is distinctive in the human condition. To spread the concept beyond our species is to jeopardize our dignity as moral beings, who live in judgment of one another and of themselves.

Keywords: Politics; Law; Social Order; Anthropology; Política; Ley; Orden social; Antropología (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-07-25
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Published in Analysis. Claves de Pensamiento Contemporáneo, 2018, 21 (3), pp.1 - 13. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.2558706⟩

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2558706

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