Wilhelm Dietler

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Wilhelm Dietler

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Why Is Wilhelm Dietler Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Wilhelm Dietler was a German philosopher and early animal rights writer. Dietler was a Master of Philosophy and in 1791 received a professorship of logic and metaphysics at the University of Mainz. He is best known for his book Gerechtigkeit gegen Thiere in 1787. The book is the oldest work to use the German term "thierrechte" . Dietler argued that the irrationality or incapability of animals to lodge claims was an insufficient reason to deny the existence of rights to animals as children showed the same characteristics in this respect yet nobody would deny that a child has certain rights. Two years later, Jeremy Bentham used a similar argument in An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation.

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