When Pompey’s Elephants Trumpeted for Mercy: Levinas and Solidarity for the Animal Face
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-33-4834-9_6" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-33-4834-9_6</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4834-9_6" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-981-33-4834-9_6</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
When Pompey’s Elephants Trumpeted for Mercy: Levinas and Solidarity for the Animal Face
Original language description
This work is an attempt to apply central ethical Levinasian concepts of face and other toward animals, in view of widening the circle of love and friendship beyond human species. The essay will move in three parts: first, by clarifying within the literature of Levinasian scholarship of animal ethics if the animal is a face and an other, and thus, is a moral agent; second, by using the concrete example of the slaughter of elephants in Circus Maximus during the reign of Pompey the Great to demonstrate the content and power of the animal face in dissolving the boundaries of social prejudice; and, third, an interpretation of Levinas’ idea of ethics as religion to describe the features of a universal living ethical piety for the animal that would guide contemporary animal ethics. The significance of the research is to contribute to the new trend of Levinasian animal ethics and a metaphysical groundwork for the ethics of care for animals which turns away from the utilitarian perspective of seeing animals in lump sums instead of individuals and from the abstract normative formulations of lifeboat dilemmas.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF15_003%2F0000425" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000425: Centre for Ethics</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Love and Friendship Across Cultures : perspectives from East and West
ISBN
978-981-334-833-2
Number of pages of the result
15
Pages from-to
83-97
Number of pages of the book
190
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Singapur
UT code for WoS chapter
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