Antropocentrism Persoektiv

ANTROPOCENTRISM
Antropocentrism uttrycker att naturen står i människans tjänst. Människan står högre än naturen och har därmed rätten att nyttja naturen. Detta till skillnad från ekocentrism därnaturens samspel står i centrum, människan utgör en del av detta samspel och måste bete sig på naturens villkor. Människan är det enda som har ett egenvärde, allt annat har ett instrumentellt värde föratt främja människan.

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Royal Society
British Pharmacological society:
UK scientists are fully engaged in debating with animal welfare organizations, anti-vivisectionists,philosophers and research funding bodies, the ethical issues surrounding the use of animals. The BPSsupports the essential use of animals in pharmacology, and in particular their use in studies carried outin the UK, where the legal use of animals in medical research is subject to stringent controls and where the standard of animal care and welfare is the highest in the world
The use of animals in drugdiscovery is an essential component of this research and is carried out as part of a broad range of studies in which alternative experimental approaches are used where possible. Whilst the majorityof pharmacological and toxicological experiments can be and are carried out using alternatives to animals (e.g. isolated cells, purified enzymes, computer modelling, pharmacologists must integrateknowledge from in vitro and in vivo systems, which makes it essential to evaluate the effects of drugs on complex whole animal physiology and behaviour

BIOCENTRISM
If we choose to let conjecture runwild, then animals, our fellow brethren in pain, diseases, death, suffering and famine — our slaves in the most laborious works, our companions in our amusement — they may partake of our origin in onecommon ancestor — we may be all netted together.
- Charles Darwin

Animal welfare
As a consequence of his monistic philosophy, Schopenhauer was very concerned about the welfare of animals.[59]...