The Silencing of the Lamb : a critical conceptual study of subjectivity, right–holders, and human rights
It is widespread human doxa that moral concern towards the animal is less important than what we direct towards our fellow human–beings. The animal is avowedly less rational, less susceptible to pleasure, and less capable of creating meaningful interactive relationships, or so widely accepted at least. I will argue that the paradigm in which we hierarchize human concern as superordinated the anima
