Overcoming Anthropocentrism through Discourse Ethics

Authors

  • Andrés Crelier Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina

Keywords:

Discourse ethics, Anthropocentrism, Argumentation, Non-human animals, Ethical gradualism

Abstract

Discourse ethics, like traditional ethics, has been criticised for its anthropocentric approach to morality, as it seems exclusively interested in an ethics of and for human beings. Against this criticism, I argue that it may provide a way to extend morality beyond the human sphere. Its ethical view, grounded in actual argumentation, provides the criteria for a gradualist extension of morality to non-human animals. This way, I analyse different cognitive abilities of non-human animals and evaluate its moral relevance in relation to the paradigmatic situation of argumentative discourse.

Author Biography

  • Andrés Crelier, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina
    Doctor of Philosophy from the National University of La Plata. He is Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the National University of Mar del Plata and Researcher at CONICET (Argentina). He has written books and articles in various areas of contemporary philosophy, such as hermeneutics, transcendental philosophy, and discursive ethics. His books From transcendental arguments to transcendental hermeneutics (La Plata: Edulp, 2010); and Introduction to the hermeneutical philosophy of language (Buenos Aires: Biblos, 2013). His current research focuses on the relationship between thought and language, with special interest in recent research in cognitive ethology.

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2020-08-08

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Overcoming Anthropocentrism through Discourse Ethics. (2020). Revista Ética Y Discurso, 5, 1-19. https://qellqasqa.com.ar/ojs/index.php/eyd/article/view/393

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