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Tom Regan war ein US-amerikanischer Philosoph. Sein Case for Animal Rights gilt als Klassiker in der Tierethik und stellt die erste Ausarbeitung einer abolitionistischen Tierrechtsposition dar. Im Rahmen von Regans anschließender fachlicher Verteidigung seines Vorstoßes lassen sich etwa drei Debattenstränge ausmachen:

Einerseits antwortete er Gegnern der Tierrechtsposition, wie z. B. Jan Narveson, Peter Carruthers oder R. G. Frey.

Andererseits bestand er gegenüber anderen Argumenten für eine ethische Berücksichtigung von Tieren auf einer deontologischen Begründung für diese Position. Regan kritisierte insbesondere Peter Singer für sein utilitaristisches Argument.

Schließlich antwortete er auch auf die feministische Kritik an seinem Argument, die beinhaltete, dass einerseits ein Grundrechtsdiskurs nicht hilfreich sei, um die Interessen anderer Tiere wirksam zu schützen, und dass Regan andererseits die Rolle von Gefühlen und moralischen Impulsen in der Ethik gegenüber Logik und Vernunft geringschätze. Kritiken dieser Art haben etwa Cora Diamond, Brian Luke oder Josephine Donovan an ihn herangetragen.Weitere Beiträge von Regan zur Ethik betreffen eine vergleichsweise scharfe Kritik an der Umweltethik beziehungsweise der Umweltbewegung sowie eine Ausarbeitung des Grenzfallarguments. Weniger bekannt, aber in Fachkreisen geschätzt, sind Regans Arbeiten zur Philosophie von George Edward Moore. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. November 1938 – 17. Februar 2017
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“From my reading of Gandhi I had learned how some people in India regard eating cow as unspeakably repulsive. I realized I felt the same way about cats and dogs: I could never eat them. Were cows so different from cats and dogs that there were two moral standards, one that applies to cows, another that applies to cats and dogs? Were pigs so different? Were any of the animals I ate so different?”

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Tom Regan buch Empty Cages

Quelle: Empty Cages (2004), Ch. 2

“People like me, people who believe in animal rights, feel the same way about eagles and elephants, pigs and porpoises, as most people feel about cats and dogs. Don't get me wrong. Animal Rights Advocates (ARAs) don't want pigs sleeping in our beds or elephants riding in our cars. We don't want to make “pets” of these animals. What we want is something simpler: we just want people to stop doing terrible things to them.”

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Tom Regan buch Empty Cages

Prologue
Empty Cages (2004)

“The task facing ARAs is daunting: we must empty the cages, not make them larger.”

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Tom Regan buch Empty Cages

Quelle: Empty Cages (2004), Ch. 4

“Then there are those proverbial “bird brains” of the barnyard, chickens, surely the most maligned and abused animal on the face of the earth, and—just as surely—among the brightest, most social birds we'll find anywhere. … Chickens not only are capable of learning, they are also capable of teaching one another. It turns out that chickens are not as dumb as popular mythology makes them out to be.”

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Tom Regan buch Empty Cages

Quelle: Empty Cages (2004), Ch. 6

“I would never have become an animal rights advocate if I had not first been a human rights advocate, especially for those humans (the very young and the very old, for example) who lack the understanding or power to assert their rights for themselves.”

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Tom Regan buch Empty Cages

Prologue
Empty Cages (2004)

“What I had learned about human rights proved to be directly relevant to my thinking about animal rights. Whether any animals have rights depends on the true answer to one question: Are any animals subjects-of-a-life? This is the question that needs to be asked about animals because this is the question we need to ask about us.”

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Tom Regan buch Empty Cages

Quelle: Empty Cages (2004), Ch. 4

“No wonder Muddlers initially think that becoming a vegetarian is like taking a vow of culinary abstinence mixed with voluntary poverty.
Of course, in time Muddlers discover that there is an incredibly delicious, colorful, and nutritious animal-free cuisine out there to be discovered, a menu of possibilities that includes foods from every nation and ethnicity in the world. It is the great new food we gain, not the customary old food we lose, that is the real surprise, something all of us have to discover for ourselves.”

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Tom Regan buch Empty Cages

Quelle: Empty Cages (2004), Ch. 6

“The less gifted do not exist to serve the interests of the more gifted. The former are not mere things when compared to the latter, to be used as means to the latter's ends. From the moral point of view, each of us is equal because each of us is equally a somebody, not a something, the subject-of-a-life, not a life without a subject.”

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Tom Regan buch Empty Cages

Quelle: Empty Cages (2004), Ch. 3

“From my reading of Gandhi I had learned how some people in India regard eating cow as unspeakably repulsive. I realized I felt the same way about cats and dogs: I could never eat them.”

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Tom Regan buch Empty Cages

Were cows so different from cats and dogs that there were two moral standards, one that applies to cows, another that applies to cats and dogs? Were pigs so different? Were any of the animals I ate so different?
Quelle: Empty Cages (2004), Ch. 2

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