Kant and animals: a review of different methodological proposals

Abstract

The current environmental and health crisis has made visible the need to examine the assumptions that govern our relationship with the environment and with other living beings. In this article I have set out to analyze some of the most important methodological proposals through which philosophy currently tries to address practical problems related to the bond that we maintain and/or should maintain with other animals. The purpose of this analysis is to highlight their virtues and defects, supporting the thesis that Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy, purged of some internal contradictions, can help lay the foundations for a much more inclusive proposal to which I have decided. label, for practical purposes, as "critical pluralist principlism". For this I have relied primarily on the research of Christine Korsgaard, James Childress, and Julian Franklin.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5894903

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