On The Tom Reagan Animal Rights Theory And The Contemporary Significance

The relationship between man and animals is an old topic, can be said that the history of the relationship between people and animals is a human history of the development. People of different periods have different understandings of the relationship between people and animals. Tom Reagan is considered to be the flag of the modern animal rights movement has a great influence on his theory of animal rights in the West.Firstly, this paper is the measure of all things to animals have indirect obligations to the three stages that have a direct obligation of animals Ideological Origins of Tom Reagan’s theory of animal rights. Tom Reagan I in which the background is an important condition for the formation of Tom Reagan animal rights. Compassion is the ethical basis of the human animal rights, what kind of animal protection theory out of human compassion and to play a far-reaching impact. Only to arouse the sympathy of the human heart for animals, people put themselves in position to feel at the animals can really be the sake of the animals.Second, it summarizes the main ideas and the main objective of Tom Reagan’s theory of animal rights. Tom Reagan that an extension of the animal rights and human rights, and that animals have moral rights as a "living entity", and this moral right is not merely the right to life, liberty and physical integrity, the right, but also a positive moral rights such as right to get help. Tom Reagan also believes that the complete abolition of the animals used in scientific research traditions and customs, a complete ban on commercial and recreational hunting and trappers, to completely eliminate the commercial animal farming. The article also from the path of reason, emotion, faith, science and technology in four aspects of animal rights thinking of.Finally, we discuss the theoretical and practical significance of Tom Reagan’s theory of animal rights. Tom Reagan animal rights theory is the relationship between man and nature, a theoretical form of the values of non-anthropocentrism, Tom Reagan, trying to tells us is that the animal rights a moral way of thinking thinking out ie, an objective justice, the principles of rational thinking, this moral way of thinking both the above advantages and avoid the simple contract theory, Rawls’ theory of contract, cruel kindness on the preference utilitarian people and animals The weakness of the relationship between moral way of thinking. In the benevolent treatment of factory farm animals, improve the code of ethics of animal science experiments, do not advocate hunting and animal entertainment, advocate vegetarianism four aspects allows us to rethink the relationship between man and animals.