ABSTRACT

This paper proposes an original ubuntu-inspired account of human-animal moral status for engaging the problem of belongingness—the ethico-ecological community view. This account embodies two integrated features: locatedness and relationality. While locatedness prompts us to attend to the embeddedness of beings in the built and natural environment, relationality allows the discussion to focus on human-nonhuman interdependencies. I argue that a deep sense of both features prompts us to move the moral status conversation away from capacities to a non-capacity-based approach, thereby helping to disrupt unjustified human moral superiority over animals in a way that commits us to environmental flourishing.

摘要

本文提出了一种受ubuntu启发的关于人类-动物道德地位的原始解释，以解决归属感问题——伦理生态社区观点。该帐户体现了两个综合特征：位置性和关系性。虽然位置性促使我们关注生物在建筑和自然环境中的嵌入性，但关系性允许讨论集中在人类与非人类的相互依存关系上。我认为，对这两个特征的深刻理解促使我们将道德地位对话从能力转移到非基于能力的方法，从而有助于破坏人类对动物的不合理道德优越感，从而使我们致力于环境繁荣。