Eze Paez in Animal Sentience
Eze Paez in Animal Sentience
Preserving nature for the benefit of all sentient individuals
10.05.2020
Eze Paez has published "Preserving nature for the benefit of all sentient individuals in Animal Sentience. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Animal Feeling 27(18), 2020.
Abstract:
I agree with Treves et al.’s proposal for a preservation ethics based on the principle that nonhuman well-being is a matter of justice and compassion. In this commentary, I advance two objections. First, only sentient beings, rather than all life, belong in the moral community. Second, given that nature is probably harmful overall for sentient individuals, preserving it for the benefit of future human and nonhuman generations requires us to modify it as far as practicable.