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Human rights and animal rights: differences matter
Menschenrechte und Tierrechte: auf die Unterschiede kommt es an
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Abstract This critique of Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka’s important book, Zoopolis, asks in what respect humans and animals categorically differ and to what extent this difference counts in a moral sense. Second, the text explains why it is illegitimate to equate human victims of racial discrimination and ... mehr
This critique of Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka’s important book, Zoopolis, asks in what respect humans and animals categorically differ and to what extent this difference counts in a moral sense. Second, the text explains why it is illegitimate to equate human victims of racial discrimination and murder with tormented and killed animals. Finally, it is demonstrated why the conceptual analogies to animals presented in this book, namely 'co-citizens' as a term for animals that live in companionship with humans, 'denizens' for those animals that cross borders between human and natural living spaces, and 'sovereign nations' for wild animals, have to be interpreted as overstretched analogies. The main thesis is that the promise of the book - to develop a political theory of animals' rights - remains unfulfilled.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Menschenrechte; Tier; Recht; Wert; Moral; Ethik; Menschenwürde; Gleichheit; politische Theorie
Klassifikation
Philosophie, Theologie
Recht
Freie Schlagwörter
Zoopolis; citizenship; human-animal relations; animal rights; human rights
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2015
Seitenangabe
S. 55-62
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 40 (2015) 4
Heftthema
Animal politics: a new research agenda in political theory
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)