This article analyses the motives behind the conflicting positions taken by Victorian Roman Catholics over the issue of vivisection. Catholics defended or attacked vivisection for widely varying reasons; there were less two schools of thought than a mosaic of arguments from which to choose. While there was substantial agreement over basic theological principles, the application of those principles to the vivisection debate varied depending upon the writer’s social, political, and scientific attitudes, which in turn were affected by professional occupation. The debate included laypeople as well as clerics, with some of the former affirming a more liberal and less theologically rigorous approach to animal rights.

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1876 年至 1914 年英国天主教关于活体解剖的辩论：一种共同的神学，但不同的应用

本文分析了维多利亚时代罗马天主教徒在活体解剖问题上所采取的相互矛盾立场背后的动机。天主教徒出于各种不同的原因为活体解剖辩护或攻击；可供选择的论点比拼凑的论据少了两种学派。虽然在基本神学原则上达成了实质性共识，但这些原则在活体解剖辩论中的应用因作者的社会、政治和科学态度而异，而这些态度又受到专业职业的影响。辩论包括非专业人士和神职人员，其中一些人肯定了对动物权利采取更自由和在神学上不那么严格的方法。