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1,200+ Canines Don Tiaras & ‘Tails’ This Week for Doggy Proms

4 The Love Of Animals

Doggy proms will be held throughout the week at Best Friends Pet Care centers in the Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Denver, San Diego and Houston metro areas, across Connecticut and New Jersey, and in Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Charlotte and at Best Friends Pet Care center at Walt Disney World in Florida.

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Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) on Duties to Animals

Animal Ethics

[I]t is not quite clear whether we owe benevolence to men alone, or to other animals also. Intuitional moralists of repute have maintained this latter view: I think, however, that Common Sense is disposed to regard this as a hard-hearted paradox, and to hold with Bentham that the pain of animals is per se to be avoided.

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Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) on Animals

Animal Ethics

Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1981], bk. It is the Good Universal , interpreted and defined as 'happiness' or 'pleasure,' at which a Utilitarian considers it his duty to aim: and it seems arbitrary and unreasonable to exclude from the end, as so conceived, any pleasure of any sentient being. published in 1874])

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W. D. Ross (1877-1971) on the Moral Significance of Pleasure and Pain

Animal Ethics

Ross, The Right and the Good [Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1988], 137 [first published in 1930]) Note from KBJ: Since the concepts of desert and good or bad disposition do not apply to animals (who are not moral agents), their pleasure is intrinsically good and their pain intrinsically bad.

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W. D. Ross (1877-1971) on the Right and the Good

Animal Ethics

Ross, The Right and the Good [Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1988], 156 [italics in original; footnote omitted] [first published in 1930]) Note from KBJ: There are four categories: (1) right and morally good (i.e., The drawing of a rigid distinction between the right and the morally good frees us from such confusion. (W.

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Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) on Received Morality

Animal Ethics

Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1981], bk. Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics , 7th ed. 30 [italics in original] [first published in 1907; 1st ed. published in 1874])

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W. D. Ross (1877-1971) on Animal Rights

Animal Ethics

This arises from the fact that we have duties to animals and to infants. We had better therefore take the less complicated case of animals, which we commonly suppose not to be even potential moral agents. It may of course be denied that we have duties to animals. Professor D.