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Deliberating Animal Values: a Pragmatic—Pluralistic Approach to Animal Ethics

F. Kupper,Tjard Cock Buning

Published 2011 in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics

ABSTRACT

Debates in animal ethics are largely characterized by ethical monism, the search for a single, timeless, and essential trait in which the moral standing of animals can be grounded. In this paper, we argue that a monistic approach towards animal ethics hampers and oversimplifies the moral debate. The value pluralism present in our contemporary societies requires a more open and flexible approach to moral inquiry. This paper advocates the turn to a pragmatic, pluralistic approach to animal ethics. It contributes to the development of such an approach in two ways. It offers a pragmatist critique of ethical monism in animal ethics and presents the results of a qualitative study into the value diversity present in the different ways of thinking about animals in the Netherlands. Carefully arranged group discussions resulted in the reconstruction of four distinctive moral value frameworks that may serve as instruments in the future process of moral inquiry and deliberation in the reflection on animal use.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2011

  • Venue

    Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics

  • Publication date

    2011-10-01

  • Fields of study

    Sociology, Philosophy, Environmental Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.1007/S10806-010-9260-8
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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