scholarly journals How to Recognize Animals’ Vulnerability: Questioning the Orthodoxies of Moral Individualism and Relationalism in Animal Ethics

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Huth
Keyword(s):  
Animal Ethics ◽  
Moral Individualism ◽  
Immanent Critique

Keywords: moral individualism; relationalism; vulnerability; recognizability; immanent critique

scholarly journals An Alternative to the Orthodoxy in Animal Ethics? Limits and Merits of the Wittgensteinian Critique of Moral Individualism

Animals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1057
Author(s):  
Susana Monsó ◽  
Herwig Grimm
Keyword(s):  
Animal Ethics ◽  
Moral Individualism ◽  
Cora Diamond

In this paper, we analyse the Wittgensteinian critique of the orthodoxy in animal ethics that has been championed by Cora Diamond and Alice Crary. While Crary frames it as a critique of “moral individualism”, we show that their criticism applies most prominently to certain forms of moral individualism (namely, those that follow hedonistic or preference-satisfaction axiologies), and not to moral individualism in itself. Indeed, there is a concrete sense in which the moral individualistic stance cannot be escaped, and we believe that it is this particular limitation that justified Crary’s later move to a qualified version of moral individualism. At the same time, we also argue that there are significant merits to the Wittgensteinian critique of moral individualism, which pertain to its attack on the rationalism, naturalism, and reductionism that characterise orthodox approaches to animal ethics. We show that there is much of value in the Wittgensteinians’ call for an ethics that is more human; an ethics that fully embraces the capacities we are endowed with and one that pays heed to the richness and complexity of our moral lives.

Animal Ethics in Animal Research

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Rocklinsberg ◽  
Mickey Gjerris ◽  
Anna Olsson
Keyword(s):  
Animal Ethics ◽  
Animal Research

Animal Ethics Orientation Scale

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Bøker Lund ◽  
Sara Vincentzen Kondrup ◽  
Peter Sandøe
Keyword(s):  
Animal Ethics ◽  
Orientation Scale

scholarly journals The Ethics of Touch and the Importance of Nonhuman Relationships in Animal Agriculture

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Animal Ethics ◽  
Physiological Responses ◽  
Animal Agriculture ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Social Animals ◽  
Reduction Methods ◽  
Salient Features

AbstractAnimal agriculture predominantly involves farming social animals. At the same time, the nature of agriculture requires severely disrupting, eliminating, and controlling the relationships that matter to those animals, resulting in harm and unhappiness for them. These disruptions harm animals, both physically and psychologically. Stressed animals are also bad for farmers because stressed animals are less safe to handle, produce less, get sick more, and produce poorer quality meat. As a result, considerable efforts have gone into developing stress-reduction methods. Many of these attempt to replicate behaviours or physiological responses that develop or constitute bonding between animals. In other words, humans try to mitigate or ameliorate the damage done by preventing and undermining intraspecies relationships. In doing so, the wrong of relational harms is compounded by an instrumentalisation of trust and care. The techniques used are emblematic of the welfarist approach to animal ethics. Using the example of gentle touching in the farming of cows for beef and dairy, the paper highlights two types of wrong. First, a wrong done in the form of relational harms, and second, a wrong done by instrumentalising relationships of care and trust. Relational harms are done to nonhuman animals, whilst instrumentalisation of care and trust indicates an insensitivity to morally salient features of the situation and a potential character flaw in the agents that carry it out.

scholarly journals Multispecies livelihoods: a posthumanist approach to wildlife ecotourism that promotes animal ethics

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Bastian Thomsen ◽  
Jennifer Thomsen ◽  
Kellen Copeland ◽  
Sarah Coose ◽  
Emily Arnold ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Ethics

Receptacle/Chōra: Figuring the Errant Feminine in Plato's Timaeus

Hypatia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 124-146
Author(s):  
Emanuela Bianchi
Keyword(s):  
Western Philosophy ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Immanent Critique

This essay undertakes a reexamination of the notion of the receptacle/chōra in Plato's Timaeus, asking what its value may be to feminists seeking to understand the topology of the feminine in Western philosophy. As the source of cosmic motion as well as a restless figurality, labile and polyvocal, the receptacle/chōra offers a fecund zone of destabilization that allows for an immanent critique of ancient metaphysics. Engaging with Derridean, Irigarayan, and Kristevan analyses, Bianchi explores whether receptacle/chōra can exceed its reduction to the maternal-feminine, and remain answerable to contemporary theoretical concerns.

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