TWO PERSPECTIVES ON ANIMAL MORALITY

Zygon® ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 953-970
Author(s):  
Adam M. Willows ◽  
Marcus Baynes-Rock
Keyword(s):  
Animal Morality

scholarly journals Animal Morality: What It Means and Why It Matters

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 283-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Monsó ◽  
Judith Benz-Schwarzburg ◽  
Annika Bremhorst
Keyword(s):  
Animal Morality

Rowlands on animal morality

2014 ◽  
pp. 115-118
Author(s):  
Gary Steiner ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Morality

scholarly journals Animal morality: What is the debate about?

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 1151-1183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Fitzpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Animal Morality

scholarly journals Problemy z moralnością zwierząt

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-172
Author(s):  
Andrzej Waleszczyński
Keyword(s):  
Moral Development ◽  
Individual Species ◽  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Animal Morality

Problems with animal morality: The paper aims at discussing the category of animal morality in the light of contemporary scientific findings and theories. First, the issue of moral development is reconsidered in the context of evolutionary anthropology and primatology, then the main positions in this debate are presented. The author proposes a typology which is based on a distinction between various senses of morality, namely a descriptive, neutral, and normative sense (i.e. evaluative). These three aspects of morality are explained in detail and used when analyzing the problems specific to animal morality. The idea of morality applied by the leading participants of ongoing debates is also discussed. The article concludes with an observation that the main problem of these debates is not the very definition of morality and, at the same time, answering the question as to whether animals (individual species) are moral beings or not, but rather what is essentially problematic are the consequences to be implied from a specific understanding of morality.

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