Larissa Lunkes de Souza
Master's student in
philosophy at PPGFil at PUCRS, graduated with a laureate in philosophy at the
same institution. Research with an emphasis on contemporaneity, ecofeminism,
oppression, structure, domination. Email: larissa.souza.003@acad.pucrs.br
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SUMMARY
The
ethical-philosophical theoretical field of animal rights is consolidated
especially in two aspects: welfare, structured in utilitarian ethics, defending
the moral criterion of sentience, ability to feel pain and pleasure, and with
this criterion it seeks to work hypotheses for animal welfare. animal being,
whose main theorist of this aspect is the philosopher Peter Singer.
Abolitionism, on the other hand, uses the reformulation of deontological ethics
developed by the thinker Tom Regan, proposing a shift from the moral framework
of “rationality” to “being-subject-of-a-life”. Despite following different
theoretical lines, the ecofeminists, especially Marti Kheel, confirm that the
arguments in favor of animal rights seek to establish the overvaluation of the
rational basis, impartiality and universality to the detriment of any emotional
sphere, such as the values of empathy and care, which in turn are associated
with the feminine. In this way, both theoretical lines end up using
antro/andro-centric lenses and assumptions that fundamentally neglect the interests/rights
of both women and animals. Thus, the central problem of the work is to identify
why ecofeminists are dissatisfied with the animalist field of welfarism and
abolitionism. Therefore, the objective of this work is to briefly present the
traditional ethics of animal rights and their respective criticisms, showing
that ecofeminists develop another possibility for the animalist field: the
ethics of care.
Keywords: Ethic; Utilitarianism; Deontology; Abolitionism; Feminism.
Reviewed by Current Scientific Journal
on
maio 09, 2023
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