@article{ART002360264},
author={Kim Hak-taek},
title={On Kant' position about Moral Standing of Animals},
journal={PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE},
issn={1975-1621},
year={2018},
number={27},
pages={42-57},
doi={10.33639/ptc.2018..27.003}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kim Hak-taek
TI - On Kant' position about Moral Standing of Animals
JO - PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
PY - 2018
VL - null
IS - 27
PB - Research Institute for East-West Thought
SP - 42
EP - 57
SN - 1975-1621
AB - The traditional position on animal moral standing did not acknowledge their moral standing. Animals are indirect moral objects to be considered only in relation to humans. This is why we have been indifferent to animal welfare so far. It is common sense that Kant represents this traditional position.
However, in Kant's view of nature, beings of nature have theirs own ends according to its inner purposiveness; also, according to its outer purposiveness, nature as a whole has a unified system which has the relation between means and ends. Every being in nature has its own intrinsic end because it is a purposeful existence by itself. This means that humans have a direct duty to non-rational beings.
The duty Kant denies to non-rational beings is merely 'a duty to someone to do something'. It brings about the problem of rights. He does not deny 'a duty to do something' to non-rational beings. Kant does not deny the moral standing of non-rational beings, nor does he deny the direct duty to them. He also does not deny their intrinsic good. What he denies is only their moral significance.
Kant's main concern lies in the act of a moral subject or agent with moral importance. He focuses on the act and motive of the moral subject, and on the moral rules and principles that guide their actions. Ultimately he concerns the world in which rational beings realize their ends. In Kant, animals, i.e. non-rational beings, have no moral significance, but have moral standing as objects to be morally considered.
KW - Moral Standing;Moral Subject and Object;Teleological Nature View;Direct Duty;Means and Ends
DO - 10.33639/ptc.2018..27.003
ER -
Kim Hak-taek. (2018). On Kant' position about Moral Standing of Animals. PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, 27, 42-57.
Kim Hak-taek. 2018, "On Kant' position about Moral Standing of Animals", PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, no.27, pp.42-57. Available from: doi:10.33639/ptc.2018..27.003
Kim Hak-taek "On Kant' position about Moral Standing of Animals" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE 27 pp.42-57 (2018) : 42.
Kim Hak-taek. On Kant' position about Moral Standing of Animals. 2018; 27 : 42-57. Available from: doi:10.33639/ptc.2018..27.003
Kim Hak-taek. "On Kant' position about Moral Standing of Animals" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE no.27(2018) : 42-57.doi: 10.33639/ptc.2018..27.003
Kim Hak-taek. On Kant' position about Moral Standing of Animals. PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, 27, 42-57. doi: 10.33639/ptc.2018..27.003
Kim Hak-taek. On Kant' position about Moral Standing of Animals. PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE. 2018; 27 42-57. doi: 10.33639/ptc.2018..27.003
Kim Hak-taek. On Kant' position about Moral Standing of Animals. 2018; 27 : 42-57. Available from: doi:10.33639/ptc.2018..27.003
Kim Hak-taek. "On Kant' position about Moral Standing of Animals" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE no.27(2018) : 42-57.doi: 10.33639/ptc.2018..27.003
