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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="IT">La Cattedra di Filosofia Morale dell'
UniversitĂ degli Studi di Siena, Dipartimento DISPOC, invita ad una conferenza
del</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt">PROF. GARY STEINER (Brucknell University,
USA)</span></p>
<span style="font-size:12pt" lang="IT">WHAT WE OWE TO NONHUMAN ANIMALS - </span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="IT">The Historical Pretensions of Reason and the
Ideal of Felt Kinship</span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="IT"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="IT">Venerdì, 3 maggio 2024, ore 16.15-18, San
Niccolò, Aula 455 (quarto piano), Via Roma, 56, Siena.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="IT">Streaming in diretta: <a href="http://meet.google.com/cde-dpxq-kwg" class="gmail-moz-txt-link-freetext">http://meet.google.com/cde-dpxq-kwg</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="IT">Tutti gli interessati sono benvenuti. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="FR">Il docente, Prof.
Christoph Lumer</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="FR">Abstract: <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">In this talk, Professor Steiner will provide
an overview of central themes from his recent book <i>What We Owe to Nonhuman
Animals: The Historical Pretensions of Reason and the Ideal of Felt Kinship</i>
(Routledge, 2023). Where the Western philosophical tradition has maintained
that the idea of human superiority over all non-human beings is a product of
the impartial employment of reason, Professor Steiner argues that in fact the
tradition has used reason as a tool for rationalizing this prior commitment to
human superiority over the nonhuman world. Where the tradition has claimed that
reason operates independently of our embodied and affective (emotional)
constitution, Professor Steiner argues for the mutual interplay of reason and
emotion in the formation of moral commitments, and he further argues for the
conclusion that a great many nonhuman animals have rich subjective lives that
in essential respects place them on a par with human beings. Rather than
seeking to preserve the historical status of human beings as what Kant called
"the titular lords of nature," we ought to broaden considerably our
conception the moral community so as to include all sentient beings as full and
direct beneficiaries of moral concern.</span></p>
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Prof. Dr. Christoph Lumer
Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Siena (Italy)
Home 1: <a href="http://www.lumer.info" target="_blank">http://www.lumer.info</a>
Home 2: <a href="https://docenti.unisi.it/en/lumer" target="_blank">https://docenti.unisi.it/en/lumer</a><br><br></pre>
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