Rejoinder to Huemer on Animal Rights

Autor: Block Walter E.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Zdroj: Studia Humana, Vol 10, Iss 4, Pp 66-77 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2299-0518
DOI: 10.2478/sh-2021-0023
Popis: 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.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals