Animals Are Good People Too

• Autorzy: Hartman Jan
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The idea of my article is to challenge traditional ways of confronting animality with humanity. Either in order to define human superiority over animals and construct “man” as an “animal and something much more,” or in order to launch the idea of an animal as being less stupid than it has always been supposed to be, the comparison between humans and animals is concentrated on suppressing animality (in humans as superiors as well as in animals—as wrongly conceived to be “stupid”) and affirming humanity. This is a dialectic interplay of two related concepts of “man” and “beast” petrifying a false vision of common fate of people and animals. This kind of false consciousness makes animals and people badly interdependent. I claim that this mental figure should be overcome by applying the very category of “being human” to so (far) called “animals.”

Słowa kluczowe

EN

animals; humanity; animality; stupidity of animals; interplay; interdependency; being human

• Wydawca: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Czasopismo: Dialogue and Universalism
• Rocznik: 2014
• Numer: 1
• Strony: 9-13

Twórcy

autor

Hartman Jan

• Jagiellonian University, Medical School in Krakow, chair of the Department of Philosophy and Bioethics