Animal rights the interests of the worse off more important than those of the better off. Another approach, virtue ethics, holds that in considering how to act we should consider the character of the actor, and what kind of moral agents we should be. Rosalind Hursthouse has suggested an approach to animal rights based on virtue ethics. Mark Rowlands has proposed a contractarian approach. Nussbaum (2004) writes that utilitarianism, starting with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, has contributed more to the recognition of the moral status of animals than any other ethical theory. The utilitarian philosopher most associated with animal rights
Jeremy Nicholas (writer) He is the author of four reference books on classical music and the biographer of Leopold Godowsky and Frédéric Chopin. He is president of the Jerome K. Jerome society and music director of the "Deanery Church of St Mary the Virgin" in Braintree, Essex. He is an authority on the piano, pianists and Leopold Godowsky in particular. Jeremy Nicholas (writer) Jeremy Nicholas (born 20 September 1947) is an English actor, writer, broadcaster, lyricist and musician. He was born in Wellington, Shropshire, raised in Stafford and educated at Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire (1957–65) and Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic