Research article
Kant, Korsgaard and the Moral Status of Animals
Kant, Korsgaard i podmiotowość moralna zwierząt
Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, nr 2(11)/2015, s. 106–119
English
Abstract
The paper discusses the views of Christine Korsgaard – one of leading modern Kantian moral philosophers – on the proper status of sentient animals. Famously, Kantian moral theory is considered as much less favorable to the idea of animal rights than the competing utilitarian tradition. Ch. Korsgaard however reexamines the foundations of Kantian ethics and comes to the conclusion that their best reading implies (contrary to Kant’s own beliefs) that not only humans but also sentient animals deserve to be treated as ends in themselves. Her interpretation and development of Kantian ethics aims to reconcile it with modern philosophical naturalism and contemporary scientific knowledge on the nature of living creatures. Ch. Korsgaard proposes convincing comprehensive picture of naturalistic axiology and its ethical implications. Nonetheless, I raise two important objections that her views seem to give rise to – concerning the nature of human and non-human subjective selves as well as relation between moral and legal rights. The paper is based mainly on the opinions presented by Ch. Korsgaard during the 3-days seminar held in Oxford (2014) devoted to discussion of her views on the status and rights of animals from the perspective of Kantian ethics as well as on her numerous writings related to the subject.
Keywords
- Christine Korsgaard
- Immanual Kant
- Kantianism
- animal rights
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T. Pietrzykowski, Kant, Korsgaard and the Moral Status of Animals, „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej” nr 2(11)/2015, s. 106–119, DOI: 10.36280/afpifs.2015.2.106
ACM
[1] Tomasz Pietrzykowski. 2015. Kant, Korsgaard and the Moral Status of Animals. AFPiFS 2(11) (2015), 106–119. https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2015.2.106
ACS
(1) Pietrzykowski, T. Kant, Korsgaard and the Moral Status of Animals. AFPiFS 2015, No. 2(11), 106–119. https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2015.2.106.
APA
Pietrzykowski, T. (2015). Kant, Korsgaard and the Moral Status of Animals. Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, 2(11), 106–119. https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2015.2.106
ABNT
PIETRZYKOWSKI, Tomasz. Kant, Korsgaard and the Moral Status of Animals. Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, n. 2(11), p. 106–119, 2015.
Chicago
Pietrzykowski, Tomasz. “Kant, Korsgaard and the Moral Status of Animals.” Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, no. 2(11) (2015): 106–19. https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2015.2.106.
Harvard
Pietrzykowski, T. (2015) “Kant, Korsgaard and the Moral Status of Animals,” Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, 2(11), pp. 106–119. Available at: https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2015.2.106.
IEEE
[1] T. Pietrzykowski, “Kant, Korsgaard and the Moral Status of Animals,” AFPiFS, no. 2(11), pp. 106–119, 2015, doi: 10.36280/afpifs.2015.2.106.
MLA
Pietrzykowski, Tomasz. “Kant, Korsgaard and the Moral Status of Animals.” Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, no. 2(11), 2015, pp. 106–19, https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2015.2.106.
Turabian
Pietrzykowski, Tomasz. “Kant, Korsgaard and the Moral Status of Animals.” Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, no. 2(11) (2015): 106–19. https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2015.2.106.
Vancouver
1. Pietrzykowski T. Kant, Korsgaard and the Moral Status of Animals. AFPiFS. 2015;2(11):106–19. doi:10.36280/afpifs.2015.2.106
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Tomasz Pietrzykowski, ‘Kant, Korsgaard and the Moral Status of Animals’ (2015) 2(11) AFPiFS 106 <https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2015.2.106>.