The idea of cooperation has been recently used with regard to human–animal relations to justify the application of an associative theory of justice to animals. In this paper, I discuss some of these proposals and seek to provide a reformulation of the idea of cooperation suitable to human–animal relations. The standard idea of cooperation, indeed, presupposes mental capacities that probably cannot be found in animals. I try to disentangle the idea of cooperation from other cognate notions and distinguish it from exploitation, use, and relationship. The upshot is a minimal taxonomy of human–animal relations that covers most possibilities, from the worst type of relation (exploitation) to that which is most favourable to animals’ welfare (relationship). In this taxonomy, cooperation is a form of relation where animals are used to produce a valuable good in a way that is compatible with their ethological features and without being harmed.

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与动物合作？什么是什么不是

合作的想法最近被用于人与动物的关系，以证明将联合正义理论应用于动物的合理性。在本文中，我将讨论其中的一些提议，并试图重新阐述适合于人与动物关系的合作理念。事实上，标准的合作理念以动物身上可能无法发现的心理能力为先决条件。我试图将合作的概念与其他同源概念分开，并将其与剥削、使用和关系区分开来。结果是人与动物关系的最小分类法，涵盖了大多数可能性，从最坏的关系类型（剥削）到最有利于动物福利的关系（关系）。在这个分类中，