Wszystkie zwierzęta są równe… czyli dlaczego zasada etyczna, na której opiera się ludzka równość, wymaga od nas także równego traktowania zwierząt

Peter Singer; Dmitry Kozhevnikov; Magdalena Kozhevnikova

doi:10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2023.12.12

Published: 2023-12-29

No. 2 (12) (2023)

All Animals Are Equal… or why the ethical principle on which human equality rests requires us to extend equal consideration to animals too

Peter Singer

, Dmitry Kozhevnikov , Magdalena Kozhevnikova

Section: FROM THE EDITORS

https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2023.12.12

Abstract

Exctract from the book Animal Liberation Now (Publisher: New York: HarperCollins, 2023), which shows that despite the growing importance of the animal liberation movement, we still abuse animals on an incomprehensible scale. The book returns to the themes of Animal Liberation – Peter Singer’s groundbreaking work from 1975 and examines how the issues of the animal rights movement intertwine with climate change and social justice. The book is also a voice arguing for a new ethics of our relationship with animals. In the quoted passage, Peter Singer argues for animal liberation and equal treatment of the interests of humans and non-humans. He also describes speciesism as prioritizing the interests of one’s own species. The ethical basis for equal treatment of different species is their shared capacity to suffer.

Keywords:

Peter Singer , Animal Liberation , utilitarianism , non-human animals , equality of interests , ethics

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Singer, P., Kozhevnikov, D., & Kozhevnikova, M. (2023). All Animals Are Equal… or why the ethical principle on which human equality rests requires us to extend equal consideration to animals too. Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies, (2 (12), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2023.12.12

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Peter Singer

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-4314

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Princeton University United States

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Peter Singer – one of the most influential contemporary philosophers alive. He was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1946. He studied at the University of Melbourne and Oxford University. He has taught at universities in England, the United States and Australia, and has been Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University since 1999. In his work he has shifted the weight of ethical considerations from theory to practice. He is a philosopher-utilitarian who has popularised the idea of animal liberation. His 1975 book Animal Liberation (Wyzwolenie zwierząt; Polish edition: Warszawa: Polski Instytut Wydawniczy, 2004) brought him international fame and was hailed as the bible of the Animal Liberation Movement. The publication inspired a worldwide movement to change our attitude towards nonhuman animals. In 2012, Peter Singer was awarded the Order of Australia - the country’s highest civic honour. Founder of the charity The Life You Can Save; co-editor-founder of the “Journal of Controversial Ideas”. Engaged in animal welfare and charitable projects (consistent with the idea of ‘effective altruism’). He is famous for his controversial
bioethical views.

Dmitry Kozhevnikov

dzamal@inbox.ru

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Dmitry Kozhevnikov – linguist and translator, graduate of Moscow State Linguistic University.

Magdalena Kozhevnikova

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Magdalena Kozhevnikova – PhD in humanities, graduate of the University of Warsaw. In 2015–2018 she worked at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, currently she is an assistant professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Warsaw.

No. 2 (12) (2023)
Published: 2024-04-10

ISSN: 2719-2687

eISSN: 2451-3849

10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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