W. D. Ross (1877-1971) on the Moral Significance of Pleasure and Pain
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 30, 2011
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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