The Infinite Debt of the Human Towards the Animal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774132 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dominique Lestel (Département de Philosophie, Ecole Normale Supérieure 45 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France.) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 171-181 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2014.976067 |
| OpenAlex | W2125774747 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 1 |
The philosophies of Jacques Derrida and Paul Shepard, while rarely encoun- tering the other, nevertheless prove to be surprisingly complementary. Derrida acknowl- edges the impossibility and necessity of the human/animal frontier, thinking the human/ animal relation in a paradigm of seeing and being seen, conceived in particular in the context of a sphere of the intimate. Shepard's not merely biological but ontological interpretation of evolution argues that humans need animals, not only metabolically but for their mental development. From the positive dependence of the human on the animal follows an infinite debt that can never be repaid; but in attempting to do so lies the responsibility and destiny of the human, that most animal animal
Animal ethics · Animal life · Biology · Context (archaeology · Debt · Destiny (ISS module · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Human animal · Impossibility · Interpretation (philosophy · Political science · Relation (database · Zoology · Computer Science · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Evolution and Science Education · Philosophy and History of Science · Ecology · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.42 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2021 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |