"Tom Regan's book is a passionate, rigorous and accurate philosophical attempt to formulate a comprehensive normative theory that sheds the most lucid light on the reasons that militate in favour of treatments, practices and institutions modelled on (and consistent with) the principle of equal respect due, for strict reasons of justice, to our fellow travellers on earth, non-human animals. (p. 9)"
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Salvatore Veca
1943 – 2021
q:it:Salvatore Veca (1943 - 2021) was an Italian philosopher.
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