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This chapter deals with animal ethics and thus with socially significant, current questions regarding human interaction with animals. The first part is about understanding why important questions about ethically correct behavior towards animals have so far received little attention in animal-assisted therapy. Subsequently, animal ethics are presented in a summarized and abbreviated form. The focus here is on the most well-known representatives and currents of animal ethics. The chapter finally culminates in the question relevant for the future development of animal-assisted therapy, what questions and ethical obligations animal ethics gives us as animal-assisted therapists.
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This phenomenon was named after the writer Tolstoy, as he described how difficult it can be to convey a simple truth based on facts to someone who is already convinced of the opposite.
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Derived from the Greek term télos for “the purpose” and/or “the goal”.
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Derived from the Greek term deon for “the obligatory”.
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Blesch, K. (2023). Animal Ethics in Animal-Assisted Therapy. In: Animal-Assisted Therapy with Dogs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67965-4_2
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