Environmental Ethics: Animal Rights in the Modern World, History of Animal Rights and Welfare in the Discipline of Philosophy

• Applied ethics or practical ethics deals with Applied Philosophy. For example; it deals with everyday life issues like animal rights, environmental ethics, Medical ethics, Professional ethics, etc. philosophically.
• Peter Singer՚s famous work is Animal Liberation
• The basic principle of the book is that the rights of animals must be taken into consideration of the basis of the pain or the suffering they undergo and not on the basis of their rationality or intelligence or mental capacities.
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