Kantianism for animals : a radical Kantian animal ethic / Nico Dario Müller.
Müller, Nico Dario, author.
2022
SF756.39
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Title Kantianism for animals : a radical Kantian animal ethic / Nico Dario Müller.
Author Müller, Nico Dario, author.
ISBN 9783031019302 (electronic bk.)
303101930X (electronic bk.)
9783031019296
3031019296
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01930-2
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-01930-2 doi
Call Number SF756.39
Dewey Decimal Classification 179/.3
Summary This open access book revises Kants ethical thought in one of its most notorious respects: its exclusion of animals from moral consideration. The book gives readers in animal ethics an accessible introduction to Kants views on our duties to others, and his view that we have only indirect duties regarding animals. It then investigates how one would have to depart from Kant in order to recognise that animals matter morally for their own sake. Particular attention is paid to Kants Formula of Humanity,' the role of autonomy and the moral law, as well as Kants notions of practical reason and animal instinct. The result is a deliberately amended version of Kantianism which nevertheless remains faithful to central aspects of Kants thought. The books final part illustrates the frameworks use in applied contexts, addressing the issues of using animals as mere means, the ethics of veganism and vegetarianism, and environmental protection. Nico Dario Muller shows how, when furnished with duties to animals, Kant's moral philosophy can be a powerful resource for animal ethicists. Nico Dario Muller is a philosopher and postdoctoral researcher in ethics at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Palgrave Macmillan animal ethics series.
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Part I Kantian Foundations
1 What Is Promising About a Radical Kantian Animal Ethic
1.1 Kantianism for Animals
1.2 A Constructive, Revisionist, Radical Agenda
1.3 Limitations and Responses to Initial Worries
1.4 The Way Ahead
References
2 Kantian Moral Concern, Love, and Respect
2.1 What Is Moral Concern Kantian-Style?
2.2 Kants Taxonomy of Duties
2.3 Others Happiness as an Obligatory End
2.4 Practical Love and Respect for Others
2.5 Kants List of Duties Towards Others
2.6 Kants Restorative Project in Moral Philosophy
References
3 The Case Against Kants Indirect Duty Approach
3.1 Kants Indirect Account of Duties Regarding Animals
3.2 Structural Problems of Kants Account
3.3 Substantive Shortcomings of Kants Account
3.4 The Unhelpfulness of Kants Account
References
Part II Building Kantianism for Animals
4 Is the Formula of Humanity the Problem?
4.1 Animals and the Formula of Humanity: Some Background
4.2 The Esteem-Concern Equivocation
4.3 Wood and Korsgaard Against the Esteem-Concern Equivocation
4.4 Obligatory Ends: How Kant Derives Duties to Others
4.5 What Is the Point of the Formula of Humanity, if Not Moral Concern?
References
5 Animals and the Directionality of Duties
5.1 Do We Truly Share the Moral Law? Thompsons Challenge to Kant
5.2 First-Personal Versus Second-Personal Accounts of Directionality
5.3 Rejecting Thompsons Challenge
5.4 Consent, Forgiveness, and Apologies Without Second-Personal Authority
References
6 Kantian Moral Patients Without Practical Reason?
6.1 Duties of Respect Towards Moral Non-agents?
6.2 Adopting Anothers Ends as Our Own
6.3 Kants Denial of End-Directed Animal Agency
6.4 Animal Ends: Conceptual, Non-conceptual, Obscure
References
7 Kantianism for Animals: The Framework in Five Claims
7.1 Duties from Autonomy
7.2 The Primacy of Duties over Rights and Claims
7.3 Duties to Self and Others
7.4 Practical Love and Non-exaltation
7.5 Motives Matter
References
Part III Using the Framework
8 A Kantian Argument Against Using Animals
8.1 External Arguments Against Using Animals
8.2 A Kantian-for-Animals Internal Argument Against Animal Use
References
9 A Kantian Argument Against Eating Animals
9.1 The Philosophical Stalemate Regarding Vegetarianism
9.2 A Kantian-for-Animals Argument Against Eating Animals
References
10 A Kantian Argument Against Environmental Destruction
10.1 Kant and the Environment: Previous Approaches
10.2 A Kantian-for-Animals Perspective on the Environment
References
11 Animal Ethics and the Philosophical Canon: A Proposal
References
Index.

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