Should the Lion Eat Straw Like the Ox? Animal Ethics and the Predation Problem

摘要: Stephen Clark’s article The Rights of Wild Things from 1979 was the starting point for consideration in animal ethics literature so-called ‘predation problem’. Clark examines response David George Ritchie to Henry Stephens Salt, first writer who has argued explicitly favor rights. attempts demonstrate—via reductio ad absurdum—that animals cannot have rights, because granting them rights would oblige us protect prey against predators that wrongly violate their This navigates reader through debate sparked off by Clarke’s article, with as final destination what I consider be best way deal predation problem. will successively discuss arguments Singer’s utilitarian approach, Regan’s deontological Nussbaum’s capability and Donadson Kymlicka’s political theory