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Humanism, anti-humanism, and nonhuman animals
Coghlan, Simon
Coghlan, Simon
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Many attacks against the anthropocentric prejudice that nonhuman animals have a slight or impoverished ethical subjecthood are also attacks on the humanistic idea of human moral uniqueness. This essay examines a way of overturning that anthropocentric prejudice by deploying certain conceptual resources of an expansive ethical humanism. Although this may appear to be a strange route to that destination, the suggestion is raised that this approach might significantly enrich our conception of nonhumans as ethical subjects.
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anthropocentrism, humanism, posthumanism, anti-humanism, ethical subjecthood, murder, remorse
Date
2016
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Society and Animals
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24
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4
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403-419
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