Tom Regan believes that animals can properly be viewed as a source of moral concern if we amend Kantian ethics to include the idea of

a. reason as an essential aspect of moral personhood
b. feelings as essential to moral personhood
c. the ability to experience pleasure and pain
d. being capable of being the subject of a life.


D

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