When Pompey’s Elephants Trumpeted for Mercy: Levinas and Solidarity for the Animal Face

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25210%2F21%3A39917433" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25210/21:39917433 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

When Pompey’s Elephants Trumpeted for Mercy: Levinas and Solidarity for the Animal Face

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

When Pompey’s Elephants Trumpeted for Mercy: Levinas and Solidarity for the Animal Face

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EF15_003%2F0000425" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000425: Centrum pro etiku</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Love and Friendship Across Cultures : perspectives from East and West

ISBN

978-981-334-833-2

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

83-97

Počet stran knihy

190

Název nakladatele

Springer

Místo vydání

Singapur

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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