Richard Ryder

This article is about the psychologist Richard Ryder. On the politician, see Richard Ryder, Baron Ryder of Wensum .

Richard D. Ryder (2012)

Richard D. Ryder (* 1940 in Purbeck , England ) is a British psychologist , author and one of the pioneers of the modern animal liberation movement and animal rights movement .

Act

Ryder used the term “ speciesism ” for the first time in a self-published pamphlet that was published in Oxford in 1970 . He stopped testing animals after he became convinced that they were immoral. His view was popularized by a book by Peter Singer . The Artenarroganz is by both authors as an analogue to the racism understood. Just as racists unjustifiably favor the interests of their own " race ", so would species arrogance unjustifiably place the interests of members of their own species above those of all other living things.

Ryder locates his pathocentric ethics , developed out of this thought, between the positions of Singer and Tom Regan . Ryder criticizes Regan's argument that the inherent value of animals is morally relevant as too vague. Central to Ryder's moral theory is the maxim to reduce the suffering of others. In contrast to Singer's utilitarianism , for Ryder the suffering of different individuals cannot be added up, so that the number of individuals affected by an action is considered irrelevant. He demands - as the title of one of his books - an animal revolution , which should result in the liberation of animals. For him, anti-speciesism is not a sideline, but rather "part of a new and expanded vision of peace and happiness"; he says: "We are discussing, I believe, a topic that is of fundamental importance for the future of our planet."

Fonts

• Victims of Science: The use of animals in research. Davis-Poynter, London 1975, ISBN 0-7067-0151-8 .
• The Political Animal: The Conquest of Speciesism. Jefferson 1998.
• Animal Revolution: Changing Attitudes Towards Speciesism. Oxford 2000.
• Painism: A Modern Morality. London 2001.
• Putting Morality Back Into Politics. Exeter 2006.
• Speciesism, Painism and Happiness: A Morality for the Twenty-First Century. Exeter 2011.
• The Black Pimpernel. Ivybridge 2012.

Web links

• Richard Ryder website
• Selection of texts in English by Ryder
• Recording a keynote by Ryder in Exeter (UK) 10 March 2012 at the conference Critical Perspectives on Animals in Society

Footnotes

1. ↑ Richard D. Ryder: Speciesism Again: The original leaflet Archived from the original on November 14, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Critical Society . 1, No. 2, 2010, pp. 1-2. Retrieved March 9, 2012. 
2. ↑ Richard Ryder: Painism. A modern morality. London 2001, p. 47.
3. ↑ Richard Ryder: Painism. A modern morality. London 2001, p. 27 f.
4. ^ Rude, Matthias: Antispeciesism. The liberation of humans and animals in the animal rights movement and the left . Butterfly Verlag, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-89657-670-5 , p. 13 ( theorie.org ).