ABSTRACT

Some concepts within the development theory known as the ‘capabilities approach’ can articulate multi-species justice. To do so, they should begin with ‘biocentric wonder’ and its correlate, the ‘biocentric freedom’ of the multiple forms of life on Earth. These lead to relational freedom supporting eco-centric considerations of a sort. In such freedom, ‘multi-species fields’ are useful for articulating multi-species justice when the relational freedom within them indicates beneficial relations between species. At the same time, wondering over the life forms left out of the field becomes a moral responsibility. There are limits to coming to multi-species justice in this way. Here, I (1) provide concepts for a ‘green’ capability approach and (2) enable the capability approach to make some sense of lands, waters, and skies as moral communities as many Indigenous societies do. In this way, the development philosophy avoids some hermeneutical injustice toward some Indigenous cultures.

摘要

发展理论中被称为“能力方法”的一些概念可以阐明多物种正义。要做到这一点，他们应该从“以生物为中心的奇迹”及其相关的、地球上多种生命形式的“以生物为中心的自由”开始。这些导致关系支持某种以生态为中心的考虑的自由。在这种自由中，当“多物种领域”中的关系自由表明物种之间的有益关系时，“多物种领域”对于阐明多物种正义很有用。同时，对被遗弃的生命形式感到好奇成为一种道德责任。以这种方式实现多物种正义是有限度的。在这里，我 (1) 提供“绿色”能力方法的概念，并且 (2) 使能力方法能够像许多土著社会一样，像道德社区一样理解土地、水域和天空。通过这种方式，发展理念避免了对某些土著文化的一些解释上的不公正。