Reading Animals unit 1

Use value (Instrumental value

-transactional, one sided

-Valued something for an end goal or the use it provides it, nothing more

Intrinsic value

Valuing something for its own sake, not gaining/trying to gain anything from the relationship

Anthropomorphism

Ascribing/attributing “human“ qualities to non-human entities

Socialization (how we as a society are socialized to think)

Children are socialized to view animals in a certain way

Parallel oppressions

-connecting how two groups are oppressed, associating one group with another

-Marginalization of animals vs minorities

-Women vs animals

Human exceptionalism

The idea that humans are exceptional and superior to everything else

Dominion view

Control and power over others, the assumption that we have the right to control and have power over animals

Stewardship view

The idea that we have a caretaker role over animals (more respectful and lighthearted compared to dominion view

Heriarchial binary

-The ways we place one idea over another (ex. Male/female, animal/plant, soul/body, master/slave, tame/wild, humans/animals, reason(mind)/emotion

-We think of these binaries as “naturally just“

Logos or logic persuasion

How one persuades another using reason and fact

Indirect duty views

-state that humans have no direct moral obligations to non-rational beings (animals, nature) but have indirect duties to humanity regarding them

-Indirect duty to animals: don’t harm an animal because it might end up harming a human

Speciesism

-Discrimination based on species

Organic repression

-Distancing from organic elements and comfort with body, smells, dirt etc

-We are often taught to repress these things (often babies for example will be taught to find disgust with poop, even tho previously they care and have a liking towards it)