汤姆.雷根(Tom Regan)的《动物权利辩护》(The Case for Animal Rights)是探讨动物权利问题的当代经典。汤姆.雷根为动物道德权利所作的辩护高度依赖于他的固有价值假定,即动物和人类一样具有平等的、不可通约的固有价值假定,这个假定尽管并不像一些批评者所认为的那样空洞无力,因此无法为动物的权利提供支持,但是汤姆.雷根应对其他批评的方式为这个假定带来了困难,导致他的立场根基不稳。 Tom Regan’s The Case for Animal Rights is a contemporary classic that explores the issue of animal rights. Tom Reagan’s defense of the moral rights of animals relies heavily on his inherent value hypothesis that animals, like humans, have equal, incommensurable, inherent value assumptions, albeit not as some critics think Lack of support for the rights of animals can not be supported, but Tom Reagan’s approach to other criticisms has created difficulties for this assumption, leading to his unstable position.