PHIL 296 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sentience, Eating Animals, Natural Disaster
4 Apr 2016
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It seems logical that animals do have an interest in living because continued existence benefits them. Q2: freedom: do sentient nonhuman animals have an intrinsic interest in freedom: jamison: keeping animals in captivity involves restricting their liberty in their lives. Humans have an intrinsic interest in liberty because they are autonomous - autonomy as the capacity to frame, revise and pursue a conception of the good. In some cases, animals do not have an intrinsic interest in freedom. The issue of freedom is central across several debates: animal use - zoos. 1: experimentation, food, companion animals, working animals, obligations to wild. Q3: zoos and aquariums: soreson: manifestation of power, as institutions that demonstrate human dominance over animals. Animals are confined in prisons and are exploited. Usually never completely permissible or not permissible: outlined in food production in the 21st century, usually most are against factory farming or defend singer and scruten.
