BioConcepts

animal ethicsTierethik (ger.)

• 1) The benevolent relation of animals towards each other.
  category bioethics

  1829

  Animal Ethics. Instincts of the missel thrush

  Anonymus (1829). Animal ethics. Instincts of the missel thrush. The Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle 1 (Nr. 73), 174.

  1890

  Animal-Ethics [...] there is a conduct proper to each species of animal, which is the relativeley good conduct – a conduct which stands toward that species as the conduct we morally approve stands toward the human species

  Spencer, H. (1890). On justice. Popular Science Monthly 37, 19-32: 19.

• 2) The human moral attitude of respect for animals.
  category bioethics

  1854

  [Audubon] wished to draw and describe the bird [a Mississippi Kite] for the benefit of science; and thus his love of knowledge rose higher than his love of charity [and he shot two birds]. The poor birds became martyrs to science. It is a question of animal ethics

  Harbaugh, H. (1854). The birds of the bible, no. xx. The kite. The Guardian 5, 262-264: 264.

  1894

  Thier-Ethik

  Bregenzer, I. (1894). Thier-Ethik: Darstellung der sittlichen und rechtlichen Beziehungen zwischen Mensch und Thier.