Reverence for the Earth is Animal Rights Ethics

Demonstrating reverence for the earth.

As a community hospital and a major employer, St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin, assumes responsibility not only for the health of people in the community but also for the health of the environment in which they live. Demonstrating reverence for the earth is a primary strategic goal, originating with its sponsoring organization, Hospital Sisters Health System, Springfie...

Animal Rights Consideration is a Necessity in Conducting an Experiment

Ethics and animal experimentation: what is debated?

The purpose of this article is to raise some points for an understanding of the contemporary debate over the ethics of using animals in scientific experiments. We present the various positions from scientific and moral perspectives establishing different ways of viewing animals, as well as several concepts like 'animal ethics', 'animal rights', and 'animal welfare'. The paper thus aims to analy...

Rethinking Reverence for Life

Albert Schweitzer's ethics of reverence for life is more complex and interesting than fIrst appears. It contains themes relevant to contemporary environmental ethics, including a virtue-ethics approach that emphasizes personal responsibility and tolerance, empathy for living organisms, and the fundamental unity of life. Not surprising, then, Schweitzer has recently been acknowledged for pioneer...

The Ethics of Animal Research

The practice of animal research is at once familiar and strange. On the one hand, almost everyone knows that it is a regular and widespread part of modern scientific and medical research. Indeed, the idea of being a “lab rat” or “guinea pig” is frequently invoked and readily understood in contemporary discourse. On the other hand, the vast majority of animal research is conducted outside public...