Why Does Personalism Turn Towards Animal Ethics？  

作　　者：Alfred Marek Wierzbicki 

机构地区：[1]The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (PL)

出　　处：《Journal of Philosophy Study》2014年第3期232-236,共5页哲学研究（英文版）

摘　　要：The intellectual heritage of modernity needs rethinking. It is marked by radical humanism and implied by the ideas of Descartes and Kant above all, which introduces an unbridgeable gap between animals and human persons （nonhuman and human animals）. Intuitive sensibility to the question of the welfare of nonhuman animals meets a theoretical ally in the rapidly growing knowledge on their subjectivity and makes us pose a questions about their ontological status. This context arouses a possibility of a turn to personalist ethics, yet not to its anthropocentric version implied by Kant, but to personalism conceived of as an instance of value ethics as exemplified by Antonio Rosmini and Karol Wojtyta （John Paul II）.

关 键 词：PERSONS ANIMALS categorical imperative value ethics HUMANISM speciesism 

分 类 号：N02[自然科学总论—科学技术哲学] B82-057[哲学宗教—伦理学]