Tuğulka: Hursthouse’s analysis of meat eating exposes two key features of the virtue ethics approach to animals. First, according to virtue ethics, meat eating, and by extension a variey of other uses of animals such as experimentation for the benefit of human beings, is not inherently pernicious. Instead, the moral status of such uses of animals is determined in each case by the underlying moral outlook and the specific virtues that it accommodates. Second, virtue ethics makes moral evaluations from the standpoint of the good life for human beings. It promotes the cultivation of character states that enable human agents to live in moderation with regard to those virtues acknowledged by the prevailing moral outlook. According to the terms of the moral outlook that prevails in our sociey, specifically human welfare is of such central concern in virtue ethics that Hursthouse challenges the proposition that concern for animals should be placed on a par with concern for our own species.

Hursthouse’s analysis of meat eating exposes two key features of the virtue ethics approach to animals. First, according to virtue ethics, meat eating, and by extension a variey of other uses of animals such as experimentation for the benefit of human beings, is not inherently pernicious. Instead, the moral status of such uses of animals is determined in each case by the underlying moral outlook and the specific virtues that it accommodates. Second, virtue ethics makes moral evaluations from the standpoint of the good life for human beings. It promotes the cultivation of character states that enable human agents to live in moderation with regard to those virtues acknowledged by the prevailing moral outlook. According to the terms of the moral outlook that prevails in our sociey, specifically human welfare is of such central concern in virtue ethics that Hursthouse challenges the proposition that concern for animals should be placed on a par with concern for our own species.

Sayfa 15 - CONTEMPORARY DEBATES ON THE STATUS OF ANIMALS, Current Philosophical Discussions of the Moral Status of Animals·Kitabı okudu

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