The Death of the Animal

Cavalieri, Paola

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“…Instead, his argument takes the form of claiming that the attempt to make general normative comparisons of humans and animals involves, as we might put it, a category mistake. Some anti-speciesists have also claimed that animal rights sceptics commit the category mistake of holding that only moral agents are morally considerable, thereby failing to see that not only moral agents can be moral patients (e.g., Cavalieri 2009;Regan 1983). However, the criterion by which moral patient-hood is ascribed to individuals by many anti-speciesists is vulnerable to a serious objection.This objection further points to a problem with their particular manner of criticising claims of human superiority, which involves a rejection of the idea that species-membership (or, as I will say below, kind) has any moral relevance in determining the moral considerability of individuals (or the ways in which individuals can be harmed or wronged).…”

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Comparing Lives: Rush Rhees on Humans and Animals

Pianalto

2011

Philosophical Investigations

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In several posthumously published writings about the differences between humans and animals, Rush Rhees criticises the view that human lives are more important than (or superior to) animal lives. Rhees' views may seem to be in sympathy with more recent critiques of “speciesism.” However, the most commonly discussed anti‐speciesist moral frameworks – which take the capacity of sentience as the criterion of moral considerability – are inadequate. Rhees' remark that both humans and animals can be loved points towards a different way of accounting for the moral considerability of humans and animals that avoid the problems of the capacity‐based approaches.

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confidence: 99%