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Speciesism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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It was Peter Singer's book that also made popular the rather ponderous term "speciesism." He writes of this as, "a prejudice or attitude of bias in favor of the interests of members of one's own species and against those of members of other species."(3) Singer says speciesism is just as bad as sexism or racism.
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Speciesism is a term coined by Richard Ryder in 1970. The word refers to the widely held belief that the human species is inherently superior to other species and so has rights or privileges that are denied to other sentient animals.
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Animal liberationists compare speciesism with racism to focus our attention on the human tendency to unreflectively accept contemporary moral standards. We are fallible. Even our deeply held views may be wrong. Our ancestors forgot (or never knew) this important lesson.
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Dunayer divides the subject into Old Speciesism, which is the view that only ... In her book Speciesism, Joan Dunayer provides considerable information on ...
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Animal rights activist Peter Singer defines speciesism as 'a prejudice or attitude of bias towards the interests of members of one's own species and against those of members of other species' (1). Advocates argue that fighting speciesism is an extension of struggles for human equality: just as we once dehumanised others...
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Speciesism is discrimination, usually with demeaning results, between individual persons due to a perceived difference in type, or species. Charles Darwin, author of Origin of Species (1859), observed that he used the term simply to denote a category of convenience.
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SPECIESISM AND THE IDEA OF EQUALITY By Bonnie Steinbock From Philosophy, vol. 53, no. 204 (April 1978): 247-256. ... There is, however, an important difference between racism or sexism and "speciesism." We do not subject animals to different moral treatment simply because they have fur and feathers, but because they are...
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STEINBOCK, BONNIE. "Speciesism and the Idea of Equality." PHILOSOPHY 53, no. 204 (April 1978). This essay is reprinted in many anthologies in moral philosophy. ... Steinbock does seem to point in an important direction in evaluating Peter Singer's claims against speciesism.
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