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Ethical Condemnation of Recreational Hunting
Ethical Condemnation of Recreational Hunting

Author(s): Dorota Probucka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Human Ecology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: ethics; hunting; moral development; suffering; animal rights

Summary/Abstract: In the article, I analyze argumentations of contemporary ethicists and psychologists in favour of forsaking and ethical condemnation of recreational hunting, referred to as an atavistic pastime of killing, as a practice based on drawing satisfaction from inducing fear, suffering and death. I refer to the theory of the moral development of a human by Albert Schweitzer, the views of Richard Ryder - a clinical psychologist, the ethics of Bernard Rollin, and the basic thesis of Paul Hauck - a psychologist.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 141-147
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English