10/17 Book Club Meeting: The Case for Animal Rights (part 2)

[Guest guest]

Time: Saturday 10/17, 1 pm

 

Location: Loving Hut (Chinatown location) 1365 Stockton St, San Francisco

 

RSVP LINK: http://www.bayareaveg.org/rsvp.htm?id=2223

 

Last time in the Food For Thought Philosophy Group, we covered Chapters 1-5 in

Tom Regan's book The Case for Animal Rights. The first half of the book laid the

groundwork for Regan's argument for the Rights View, which we will cover this

month.

 

We'll be discussing the material covered in Chapters 6-9.1, including:

 

• What is Utilitarianism? What are the varieties of Utilitarianism?

• What might make Utilitarianism unacceptable?

• Regan's Rights View. How the Rights View avoids some of the

concerns raised regarding other views covered in the book.

• Animal agriculture and the Rights View.

 

The Rights View can be considered largely independently of the first half of the

book—so feel free to join us if you weren't part of the last discussion or

haven't read the beginning of the book.

 

Also, based on feedback from the last group, here some suggestions for what you

can read if you don't have time to make it through 160 pages:

 

• Read Regan's essay " The Case for Animal Rights " at

http://www.tomregan-animalrights.com/tr_essays.html. OR

• If you have the book, read the Chapter Summaries. OR

• Read Chapter 8 and the Chapter Summaries. OR

• If you're feeling really ambitious, read chapters 6 through 9.1.

 

Regan is a charismatic speaker. Here's one of the spots you can see him talking

about the Rights View:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTNNJspZXA4 & feature=related

 

Hope to see you there.

 

Mike and Mila