Speciesist Hierarchies within Western Thinking [Spanish]

Authors

  • Sandra Baquedano Universidad de Chile

Abstract

A wide range of sources is available to support the notion that the Judeo-Christian tradition has been instrumental in legitimizing speciesism. Nonetheless, it would be unfair to claim that the West’s harmful and discriminatory attitude to other species proceeds solely from its historically dominant religious tradition. The construction of discriminatory species hierarchies has been the rule rather than the exception, procee­ding from a variety of arguments and suppositions. This discriminatory tendency can be found in diverse Western cosmovisions; even in Darwinian theories which reject the theological and metaphysical underpinnings previously used to shore up speciesist practices. This pervasiveness suggests that the speciesist tendency is intimately bound up with the problem of destruction, understood here as the process by which human beings have exploited innumerable species, to the point of systematically rendering them extinct.

Author Biography

Sandra Baquedano, Universidad de Chile

Doctora en Filosofía (Universität Leipzig 2007); profesora asociada del Departamento de Filosofía de la Universidad de Chile.

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2017-06-13

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No. 27 (2017): No. 27 July-december 2017

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