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Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals

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Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals

Jamieson, Dale
The Philosophical Review , Volume 130 (2) – Apr 1, 2021
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/the-philosophical-review/article-pdf/130/2/315/930121/315jamieson.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 BOOK REVIEWS capacities, and ends that seem more naturally suited to the good practical use of those capacities. This tension is brought out strikingly in the book’s final para- graph: The guiding thread of this book is that Kant conceives of reflection in resolutely cognitivist terms. It is in the interest of knowing, and that alone, that we ought to be reflective. The motto of the Kantian reflective ideal is self-determination through understanding. There is an element of submission to this, of owing fidelity to what obtains independently of any particular exercise of cognitive capacities. This includes fidelity to a value that obtains independently of anything anyone does or doesn’t do, cares about or doesn’t care about. This submission, moreover, is not to any indifferent fact about what is the case. We owe fidelity, chiefly, to what is most worth caring about in the complete order of things. For Kant, this can only be actual human beings. (208) In Merritt’s final accounting, the value of knowing appears derivative; the value of actual human beings, fundamental. One wonders whether this ordering of values is fully compatible with the primacy

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