{"id":1791,"date":"2008-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2008\/01\/12\/is-our-treatment-towards-animals-morally-acceptable-in-todays-modern-society\/"},"modified":"2008-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"is-our-treatment-towards-animals-morally-acceptable-in-todays-modern-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2008\/01\/12\/is-our-treatment-towards-animals-morally-acceptable-in-todays-modern-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Is our Treatment Towards Animals Morally Acceptable in Today&#8217;s Modern Society?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction- Why does today\u2019s society hold such diverse attitudes towards animals? Can controversial practices such as factory farming be justified in our anthropocentric society or is it time to modify our relationship with animals? Aim- In my investigation I want to establish why society is so confused regarding the moral of animals. I will consider how our attitudes towards animals in society have changed throughout history by examining the influences of religion and science. After establishing this I then wanted to scrutinize the relevant philosophical theories which I believe are present in our attitudes now. Kant\u2019s notion of personhood justifies using animals in any way for human benefit and thus is appropriate regarding some of today\u2019s animal practices e.g. animal testing. Singer\u2019s utilitarian outlook which considers animals to have equal moral status with mankind can be related to other aspects of society\u2019s attitudes e.g animal charities. Finally I will examine Owen\u2019s ecological outlook on nature which relates to society\u2019s growing concern for the wellbeing of the whole of the natural world. After considering the strengths and weaknesses of all these views I could then establish which moral attitudes we ought to adopt and enforce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha Beazley, 2008, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,22,128],"tags":[245,37,529],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-518","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-animal-rights","tag-morality","tag-owen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}