TY - JOUR
T1 - Animals and Relational Egalitarianism(s)
AU - Bengtson, Andreas
N1 - Funding Information:
A previous version of this article was presented at the Nordic Network for Political Theory 2021 in Aarhus. I thank the audience for helpful comments, in particular my discussant Robert Huseby. For helpful written comments on earlier versions of this article, I thank Anne-Sofie Greisen Højlund, Søren Flinch Midtgaard, and two anonymous reviewers for Journal of Applied Philosophy. Finally, a special thanks to the Independent Research Fund Denmark (‘Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond’) for a generous grant (case number: 1027-00002B) which gave me the time to work on this article.
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© 2022 The Author. Journal of Applied Philosophy published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society for Applied Philosophy.
PY - 2023/2
Y1 - 2023/2
N2 - According to relational egalitarianism, a society is just insofar as the relations in that society are equal. Exclusively, relational egalitarians have been concerned with why humans, in particular adults, must relate as equals. This is unfortunate since relational egalitarians claim to be in line with the concerns of real-life egalitarians; but real-life egalitarians, such as vegans and vegetarians, clearly care about injustices committed against non-human animals. In this article, I thus explore the role of non-human animals in relational egalitarianism. I distinguish four accounts of relational egalitarianism and argue that they differ in what they imply for relationships between humans and animals. Interestingly, it will also become clear that in relational egalitarianism, a relation may not only be unequal or equal; it may also be non-unequal.
AB - According to relational egalitarianism, a society is just insofar as the relations in that society are equal. Exclusively, relational egalitarians have been concerned with why humans, in particular adults, must relate as equals. This is unfortunate since relational egalitarians claim to be in line with the concerns of real-life egalitarians; but real-life egalitarians, such as vegans and vegetarians, clearly care about injustices committed against non-human animals. In this article, I thus explore the role of non-human animals in relational egalitarianism. I distinguish four accounts of relational egalitarianism and argue that they differ in what they imply for relationships between humans and animals. Interestingly, it will also become clear that in relational egalitarianism, a relation may not only be unequal or equal; it may also be non-unequal.
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U2 - 10.1111/japp.12611
DO - 10.1111/japp.12611
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85136505605
SN - 0264-3758
VL - 40
SP - 79
EP - 94
JO - Journal of Applied Philosophy
JF - Journal of Applied Philosophy
IS - 1
ER -