What do we own the animals and how and why do we owe it to them? Kant, Singer
Title: What do we own the animals and how and why do we owe it to them? Kant, Singer
Category: /Science & Technology/Biology
Details: Words: 576 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
What do we own the animals and how and why do we owe it to them? Kant, Singer
Category: /Science & Technology/Biology
Details: Words: 576 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
What do we own the animals and how and why do we owe it to them?
According to Kant we do not owe animals anything as he puts it "Animals... are there
merely as a means to an end. That end is man."(emp130) I think the way he sees it is
that animals do not have the capacity to understand, to make reason. When a dog is
taught something like not to urinate in
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disagrees with the torture
and cruelty towards them, he thinks that humans have more "value" than
an animal does. Kant states the ultimate ways that humans are worth
more than animals such as desires, goals, and worth that are something
that only a human may posses and an animal may never own. All in all,
Kant beleives that animals were put here to benefit mankind, and that
respect is for man and not for animal.