Abstract

BAQUEDANO JER, Sandra. JERARQUÍAS ESPECISTAS EN EL PENSAMIENTO OCCIDENTAL. Eidos [online]. 2017, n.27, pp.251-271. ISSN 1692-8857.

A wide range of sources is available to support the notion that the Judeo-Christian tradition has been instrumental in legitimizing speciesism. Nonetheless, it would be unfair to claim that the West's harmful and discriminatory attitude to other species proceeds solely from its historically dominant religious tradition. The construction of discriminatory species hierarchies has been the rule rather than the exception, proceeding from a variety of arguments and suppositions. This discriminatory tendency can be found in diverse Western cosmovisions; even in Darwinian theories which reject the theological and metaphysical underpinnings previously used to shore up speciesist practices. This pervasiveness suggests that the speciesist tendency is intimately bound up with the problem of destruction, understood here as the process by which human beings have exploited innumerable species, to the point of systematically rendering them extinct.

Keywords : Non human animals; antispeciesism; specie; hierarchy; nature.

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