Animal Ethics and the Philosophical Canon: A Proposal

Abstract

AbstractThis chapter concludes the book, discussing the main results and open questions for further research. It revisits the book’s basic agenda: to use Kantianism constructively, to revise it so that it includes animals in moral concern, and to be radical about it in the sense that duties to animals and human beings are set on equal philosophical footing. The chapter proposes that animal ethicists should take this approach to other figures from the history of philosophy, particularly if their views explicitly or implicitly exclude animals from moral concern.