scholarly journals Rejoinder to Huemer on Animal Rights

Studia Humana ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 66-77
Author(s):  
Walter E. Block
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Intellectual Leader

Abstract Heumer and I debate animal rights, utilitarianism, libertarianism, morality and philosophy. We agree that suffering is a problem, and diverge, widely, on how to deal with it. I maintain that this author’s reputation as a libertarian, let alone an intellectual leader of this movement, is problematic. Why? That is because libertarianism, properly understood, is a theory of intra-human rights; this philosophy says nothing about right from an extra-human perspective, Heumer to the contrary notwithstanding. That is to say, he is improperly importing into the freedom philosophy considerations extraneous to it.

scholarly journals Virunga National Park - Steder og rettigheder for gorillaer og mennesker i Afrika

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (119) ◽  
pp. 13-34
Author(s):  
Frits Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
National Park ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Short Description ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
International Human ◽  
Congo Free State

The article outlines some of the historical traces for the eco-crisis that presently threatens the first and most outstanding national park in Africa, homeland of the mountain gorilla. After a short description of the site, the article presents the Congo Reform Movement’s campaign against the bloody suppression in the Congo Free State around 1900, often referred to as the Red Rubber-regime. The Congo Reform Movements “Atrocity Meetings” are considered to be the first human rights campaign, because they established the rhetorical models that we find today in Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Global Witness. The article argues that we can detect similar and highly problematic structures in the animal rights campaigns which took on a global scale in the 1970s – initiated among others by Dian Fossey and her famous and infamous fight for the protection of mountain gorillas in the Virunga mountains. Both human rights campaigns and animal rights campaigns share a responsibility, I argue, for the eco-crisis at Virunga. Finally I present the documentary Virunga from 2014 as a model and as a rhetorical alternative.

Animal Rights, Human Rights: Ecology, Economy and Ideology in the Canadian Arctic. George Wenzel

Anthrozoös ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-283
Author(s):  
A.Lawrence Elizabeth ◽  
Merritt Clifton
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Canadian Arctic

The Labor Process: How the Underdog is Kept Under

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dickens
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Labor Process ◽  
Historical Materialist ◽  
Fundamental Challenge ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

Abstract"Marxism and the Underdog" is an impressive paper. It usefully outlines the strengths and weaknesses of the Marxist (what I would prefer to term "historical materialist") perspective on animals. As the paper rightly suggests, much of Marx's own work was predicated on the opposition between humans and animals other than humans. Yet, as the paper also points out, many of his concepts and critiques are useful for addressing contemporary concerns. Among the most important recent examples is Benton's critique of liberal and individualist "animal rights." It is a perspective on Marx and his assertion that much human rights discourse offers little or no fundamental challenge to the patterns of economic, social, and political power that pervade capitalist society. There is little point in allocating rights to humans (and to animals) if the kind of society in which they live systematically denies the realization of these rights. I mention Benton here because his important perspective on animal rights is not fully explained in the paper under review here.

Animal Rights, Human Rights: Ecology, Economy and Ideology in the Canadian Arctic.

Man ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 202
Author(s):  
David Riches ◽  
George Wenzel
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Canadian Arctic

scholarly journals On the Concept of Ecological Solidarity. What Connects Animal Rights with the Rights of Human Beings?

2018 ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Dorota Probucka
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Human Beings

The article consists of two parts. In the first one, I discuss the idea of ecological solidarity, which is interpreted by me as solidarity sensu largo resulting from the sense of belonging to a community of living and suffering beings. In the second part of the article I answer the question: what connects animal rights with the rights of human beings? In my opinion, if the European civilisation did not develop a category of solidarity, there would be no concept of human rights, and without the category of eco-solidarity there would be no concept of animal rights.

scholarly journals Animals’ Mental Suffering Paradigm in Estonian Judicial and Media Environment

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 9-25
Author(s):  
Mari-Ann Susi
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
Legal Norm ◽  
Criminal Sanction ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
European Context

In the European context, animal rights legislation is relying on human rights language, since it aims to protect the animals from mental suffring. The fact that a legal norm is not labelled as a human rights norm does not alter its content. This article also shows that in the Estonian judicial system the concept of animals deserving protection of their fundamental rights is accepted by default. The reasoning of court judgments indicates that the main reason for criminal sanction is the violation of animals fundamental right not to be killed or tortured. The article supports the thesis that it is clear that there is an urgent need to recognize the animal rights in legislation directly and the need of such application of these laws by courts; altogether with placing such conviction in public awareness.

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