Darwin on Mind, Ethics and Animals
Charles Pence (ISP, UCL)
In the years after he published his famous Origin of Species, Charles Darwin turned his focus to filling in details of his argument, which he had been forced to pass over in the Origin's rapid writing process. One such detail was an extensive effort to describe the mental and moral capacities of man and animals. His guiding principle was a broad continuity between man and the animal kingdom – there is no difference in kind, for Darwin, between human and animal mental and moral capacities, only a difference in degree. While Darwin only wrote briefly on humans' ethical obligations to animals, I will present the broader context for his moral thought and offer a reconstruction of how some of his arguments might inform contemporary thought on the human-animal relationship.
séance du 26/09/2018, séminaire GRICE : http://grice.quelfutur.org
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