【作者】 王云岭；

【Author】 Yunling Wang1 Shandong Jinan 250012

【机构】 山东大学医学院医学伦理学研究所；

【摘要】 2006年春发生了一起女子虐猫引发民众愤怒的事件。许多批评者认为女子虐猫行为残忍,侵犯动物权利。激进者认为应当对虐猫者进行惩罚,中国应当对动物权利保护立法。中国的生命伦理学家应该如何看待这一事件?生命伦理学家应该对动物权利和动物福利持怎样的态度?应该向民众澄清哪些认识?西方伦理学无法为动物福利和动物权利提供合乎逻辑的道德理由,中国的儒家伦理学则很少讨论权利问题,而更多地思考“仁”和“义”的问题,即爱他人和对他人应做之事,并未将人与动物的关系作为道德之一伦。总之,动物福利和动物权利得不到伦理学辩护,是荒谬的。这与环境伦理学不同,因为环境伦理学中提倡的保护动物是人类中心主义的合乎逻辑的结论。更多还原

【Abstract】 An incident that a woman maltreated a cat occurred in the spring of 2006, which caused people’s indignation. Many people who give criticisms thought that the woman is very brutal to the cat and infringe the animals’ rights. The radical deem that the woman should be punished, and a law should be legislated for the animals’ rights in China. What about the Chinese bioethists’ views on this incident? What about the Chinese bioethists’ views on animals’ rights and welfare? What views should the bioethists clarify to the public? Western ethics can not provide logical moral reason for animals’ welfare and rights. Chinese Confucian ethics talk about less rights, but more benevolence (ren) and righteousness (yi) which means to love others and something you should do for others. Chinese Confucian ethics didn’t regard the relationship between human being and animals as moral human relations. In a word, animals’ welfare and rights is absurd for not being defended by ethics. This differs from protecting animals in environmental ethics while which is the logical conclusion of anthropocentricity.更多还原