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5191A Direct Kantian Duty to AnimalsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 52 (3): 338-358. 2014.Kant's view that we have only indirect duties to animals fails to capture the intuitive notion that wronging animals transgresses duties we owe to those animals. Here I argue that a suitably modified Kantianism can allow for direct duties to animals and, in particular, an imperfect duty to promote animal welfare without unduly compromising its core theoretical commitments, especially its commitments concerning the source and nature of our duties toward rational beings. The basis for such duties …Read more
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The Politics of Race |
Moral Emotion, Misc |
Kantian Ethics |
Equality |
Punishment in Criminal Law |
Suicide |
Death and Dying |
Paternalism |
Morality of Procreation |