Orta Asya Türkleri hayatta kalma mücadelesinde hayvanlardan büyük destek almıştır. Doğada hayvanlarla birlikte yaşama zorunluluğu zamanla kendini gönüllülük esasına bırakmış, İslamiyet’in kabulüyle hayvanlara muamele dinin kutsal bir gereği olarak değerlendirilmiştir. II. Meşrutiyet’in ilanından sonra batılılaşma çabaları çerçevesinde Avrupa ülkeleri rol model alınarak Osmanlı Devleti’nde de ha...

The day is already here when androids perform tasks and act in ways which seem to be human. However, as of now, no one is prepared to view these man-made creations as anything other than property to be used for our benefit or entertainment. As the systems become more sophisticated, and as engineers try harder to build “conscious” machines, I suggest that a number of moral, ethical, and legal is...

Animals have moral standing; that is, they have properties (including the ability to feel pain) that qualify them for the protections of morality. It follows from this that humans have moral obligations toward animals, and because rights are logically correlative to obligations, animals have rights.

Lord Shaftesbury's Lunacy Commission. Previous government attempts to introduce rate funded district asylums in Scotland, like those of the 1808 English County Asylums Act, had also been resoundingly defeated on a localist agenda. Andrews pauses briefly over the 1855-57 Scottish Lunacy Commission inquiry which led to legislation and the establishment of a full-time Lunacy Commission. This was i...

Mail-in surveys were distributed to animal activists attending the 1996 March for the Animals. Age and gender demographic characteristics of the 209 activists who participated in the study were similar to those of the 1990 March for the Animals demonstrators. Most goals of the animal rights movement were judged to be moderately to critically important, although beliefs about their chances of be...