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Mark Coeckelbergh: Growing Moral Relations. Critique of Moral Status Ascription
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Swart, Jac. A. A. |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | Why should we consider animals in our moral circle? This is an important question as we often strongly intervene in the lives of animals: We keep them as pets, breed them in factory farms, let them dance in circuses, hunt them, and destroy the vermin. However, many of these practices are strongly criticized because many people consider animals as members of our moral circle. This is often grounded by considerations based on consequentialist and deontological thinking that recognizes certain basic features of animals as morally relevant. In his recent book ‘‘Growing Moral Relations. Critique of Moral Status Ascription,’’ Mark Coeckelbergh develops a very critical view on these main streams of animal ethics, especially on consequential and deontological thinking, and to a lesser extends also on virtue ethics. Instead of such lines of reasoning, he argues for a relational approach to the question why non-human animals have moral standing. The book consists of two parts. The first part is more or less an introduction to the main arguments through a critical journey along main streams of ethical and political thinking. This part ends in what we may call an engaged, relational, and ecological view of moral standing of human and non-human entities, as he also considers artificial intelligence in his approach. The second part, taking nearly a double number of pages, explores meta-ethical questions with respect to language, bodies, technology, and religion. Let me start with the first part. According to Coeckelbergh current main ethical thinking concerning the moral status of non-human beings can be outlined as follows: (1) Having property P is sufficient for moral status S; (2) All entities of |
| Starting Page | 1241 |
| Ending Page | 1245 |
| Page Count | 5 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10806-012-9435-6 |
| Volume Number | 26 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://coeckelbergh.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/swartreview.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-012-9435-6 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
