Abstrakt
The article concerns a new educational theory based on the idea of animal rights. It was presented and developed by the American ethicist Tom Regan, which drifted its axiological base and was the initiator of socio-educational movement called Animal Rights Movement, to which joined other ethicists, educators, layers, veterinarians, and even theologians. The article contains analysis of Tom Regan's views on the issue of moral status of non-human beings, and consists of two parts. The first part concerns the criticism of ethical theories based on the idea of direct and indirect moral duties to animals. In the second part are discussed the main concepts and principles of a new way of thinking such as: inherent value, a subject of a life criterion, the respect principle and its derivatives.
Bibliografia
Dworkin R., Biorąc prawa poważnie, przekł. T. Kowalski, Warszawa 1998.
Finsen L., Finsen S., The Animal Rights Movement in America, New York 1994.
Hohfeld W. N., Fundamental Legal Conception as Applied in Judicial Reasoning, New Haven 1919.
Kant I., Uzasadnienie metafizyki moralności, przekł. M. Wartenberg, Warszawa 1971.
Nozick R., Anarchy, State and Utopia, New York 1974.
Probucka D., Filozoficzne podstawy idei praw zwierząt, Kraków 2013.
Regan T., The Case for Animal Rights, Philadelphia 1983.
Regan T., Defending Animal Rights, Urbana-Chicago 2001.
Regan T., Animal Rights, Human Wrong, New York 2003.
Regan T., Empty Cages. Facing the Challenges of Animal Rights, New York 2004.
Shue H, Basic Rights, Princeton 1980.