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Humans’ Best Friend? The Ethical Dilemma of Pets


 
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1. Title Title of document Humans’ Best Friend? The Ethical Dilemma of Pets
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Matteo Andreozzi; PhD in Philosophy at University of Milan, Italy; Italy
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Philosophy; Ethology; Anthropology
 
3. Subject Keyword(s) Pets; companion animals; animal welfare; animal liberation; animal rights; impartialism; partialism; intrinsic value; special duties; relational ethics; contextual ethics.
 
4. Description Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the need for a reassessment of the moral status of pets. I argue that pets rest on an undefined ethical borderline, which brings several puzzling problems to both human-centered ethics and animal ethics and that neither of these fields adequately handles these issues. I focus specifically on human relationships with companion animals as one of the most significant interspecific relationship involving humans and pets. I also show that a deeper questioning of the moral status of pets is a required step toward the moral rethinking of human-animal relationships.
 
5. Publisher Organizing agency, location LED Edizioni Universitarie
 
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7. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 2013-11-13
 
8. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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9. Format File format PDF
 
10. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/article/view/16
 
10. Identifier Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.7358/rela-2013-002-andr
 
11. Source Title; vol., no. (year) Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism; Vol 1, No 2 (2013): Inside the Emotional Lives of Non-human Animals: Part II
 
12. Language English=en en
 
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15. Rights Copyright and permissions Copyright (©) 2018 Matteo Andreozzi