"African ethics is primarily concerned with community and harmonious communal relationships. The claim is frequently made on behalf of African moral beliefs and customs that African society does not objectify and exploit nature and natural existents, unlike Western moral attitudes and practices...

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1. Verfasser:	Horsthemke, Kai 1957- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Basingstoke, Hampshire Palgrave Macmillan 2015
Schriftenreihe:	The Palgrave Macmillan animal ethics series
Schlagworte:	PHILOSOPHY / General PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy PHILOSOPHY / Political PHILOSOPHY / Social Animal rights > Africa Ethics > Africa Communities > Africa Tierethik Afrika
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Zusammenfassung:	"African ethics is primarily concerned with community and harmonious communal relationships. The claim is frequently made on behalf of African moral beliefs and customs that African society does not objectify and exploit nature and natural existents, unlike Western moral attitudes and practices. This book investigates whether this claim is correct by examining religious and philosophical thought, as well as traditional cultural practices in Africa. Through exploration of what kind of status is reserved for other-than-human animals in African ethics, Horsthemke argues that moral perceptions and attitudes on the African continent remain resolutely anthropocentric, or human-centred. Although values like ubuntu (humanness) and ukama (relationality) have been expanded to include nonhuman nature, animals have no rights, and human duties to them are almost exclusively 'indirect'. Animals and African Ethics concludes by asking whether those who, following their own liberation, continue to exploit and oppress other creatures, are not thereby contributing to their own dehumanization. "...
Beschreibung:	xi, 187 Seiten
ISBN:	9781137504043