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    Kant's Account of Our Moral Obligations Concerning Animals: Animals in Kantian Ethics
    University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal 5 (1): 8. 2019.
    Immanuel Kant holds that rational agency is a necessary condition to merit direct moral consideration; therefore, he claims that we have no direct duties to animals. Nevertheless, he argues that we still ought to treat animals well, but only because we have duties to protect and develop our own moral character. Thus, what appear to be duties to animals themselves are, according to Kant, only indirect duties to them. However, the substantial challenge here is figuring out whether Kant’s indirect …Read more