南京林业大学学报（人文社会科学版）2016，Vol.16Issue(3)：54-63,10.
动物伦理中的理性原则与情感原则
On Rational and Emotional Principles in Animal Ethics
摘要
Abstract
The various principles of argumentation on animal ethics can be roughly divided into rational and emotional principles. The rationalistic philosophers, such as Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and Rene Descartes etc., proposed that human should treat animals with rational principles, and animals, without the same ethic status as human, should only be means and instruments for human to use. In argumentation on animal rights, Tom Regan advocated that the rights should be extended to animals rather than be limited to human. Even if Regan kept on stressing that his demonstration was completely based on rational principles, his argument was refuted by Alan White and Mary Anne Warren etc. whose arguments were also out of rational principles. Besides, the animal rights proposed by Regan were only limited to higher animals, the subjects of living. In confining rights to subjects with living experiences, Regan didn��t realize that the principles he followed were actually emotional principles. In fact, the contracts on animal protection remain moral problems providing an external reason for animal ethics. The emotional principles in animal ethics advocate sympathy for animals, which is manifested by Peter Singer��s theory, in which he gave up making a distinction between animals and human. According to Kant’s moral philosophy confined within the rational beings, human have no direct moral responsibility for animals, the justification of animal ethics is based on benevolence and compassion of rational beings, and the responsibility for animals is the indirect responsibility for human themselves. The utilitarianism, represented by Jeremy Bentham, also bases animal ethics on animals’feeling about pain and pleasure and on human��s compassion for animals. The emotional principles provide an internal reason for animal protection, which is also applicable for the moral conduct of treating other non⁃rational beings. The argument on animal ethics mainly focuses on the conflict between rational and emotional principles. Wholism⁃oriented thinking proposed by synergetics resolves the conflict effectively, and provides a more reasonable demonstration for animal ethics as well.关键词
动物伦理/理性原则/情感原则/协同学Key words
animal ethics/rational principle/emotional principle/synergetic引用本文复制引用
张达玮,陆玉瑶..动物伦理中的理性原则与情感原则[J].南京林业大学学报（人文社会科学版）,2016,16(3):54-63,10.基金项目
2016年湖南省研究生科研创新项目“人际对待的理性原则与情感原则研究”（CX2016B621）；湖南省差异与和谐社会研究基地开放基金（15jdzb047）；2016年度吉首大学人文社会科学类校级科研项目“人际对道德原则研究”（16SKY003）；2016吉首大学研究生科研创新项目 （）
