The Problem of Non-Human Animals in Levinasian Ethics and a Possible Corrective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9688377 |
|---|---|
| Authors | BERIL İDEMEN SÖZMEN, Beril Sözmen (Istanbul Technical University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 769-791 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s001221731500044x |
| OpenAlex | W2605106090 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Animals in Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics can neither respond to the ethical demand, nor can they be the Other from whom the demand emanates. Levinas’ characterisation of the Other as human seems to be incompatible with his description of the Other as infinitely transcendent and of the face as refusing to be contained. A corrective can be found in Martin Buber’s two-dimensional account of the encounter. Buber widens the scope of entities with which morally demanding encounters are possible. Complementing the Levinasian account of the encounter with Buber’s provides a way of recognising non-human animals as the Other in the moral encounter
Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept) · Scope (computer science) · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |