Imperatyw kategoryczny w obronie praw zwierząt. Ekstensjonizm etyczny Christine Korsgaard
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2018
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Instytutu Filozofii UAM
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The Categorical Imperative in Defence of Animal Rights. Christine Korsgaard’s Ethical Extensionism
Abstract
In this paper, I present Christine Korsgaard’s style of building a conception
of animal rights protection based on a concept of Kantian provenance, namely “end in
itself”. Considering that an end in itself in Immanuel Kant’s philosophy includes only
human beings, the American philosopher needed to modify (extend) the meaning of
the abovementioned concept. This study aims at showing this change of the meaning in
categories derived from Fregean semantics (sense and reference). Moreover, I will attempt
to prove that by broadening the extension of “end in itself” Korsgaard uses a strategy
called ethical extensionism and situates the revised (naturalized) categorical imperative
ipso facto within environmental ethics.
I start with elucidating Korsgaard’s views on the meaning of “end in itself” before she took
interest in animal rights (set out mainly in Kant’s Formula of Humanity and The Sources
of Normativity) and then I synthetically describe her animal rights philosophy with a
special regard to the category of “natural good”. The second part of the article explains
the methodology used in the paper, while the last part is intended to be an interpretation
of Korsgaard’s thought.
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animal rights, ethical extensionism, Christine Korsgaard, Immanuel Kant, an end in itself, sense and reference
Citation
Ethics in Progress, Volume 9 (2018), Issue 1, pp. 140- 173.
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2084-9257