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Simone Pollo, Umani e animali: questioni di etica, Carocci, Roma, 2016, pp. 148
Severini, Eleonora
2018
Abstract
Issues about non-human animals are gaining an increasing attention in the public debate. Such kind of problems could not fail to concern moral philosophy and, more specifically, applied ethics. In recent decades, the need to include animals in the sphere of moral consideration has been specifically addressed by the philosophical analysis and a new area of research has arisen, i.e. “animal ethics”. Simone Pollo’s Umani e animali: questioni di etica is a contribution in this field of investigation and develops an original point of view with respect to the current philosophical debate. A first element of novelty can be found in the way the author takes into account the problem, since he does not care about ascribing to human beings a series of obligations towards animals, but he rather questions the position of animals in the moral life of human beings. Thus, in presenting the contents of the text, we will analyze in particular its theoretical framework and will discuss its main characteristics: (1) the anti-theoretical approach, (2) the reference to naturalism, and (3) the sentimentalist view. These points will offer the opportunity to point out a topic discussed by the author and which constitutes the background of his whole reflection, namely the notion of moral progress.
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Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Eleonora Severini, "Simone Pollo, Umani e animali: questioni di etica, Carocci, Roma, 2016, pp. 148", in "APhEx 17", 2018, pp. 14
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it
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