The ethics of wild animal suffering

Jalagania, Beka

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URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-620335
Dokumenttyp:	Dissertation
Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Ort der Veröffentlichung:	Mannheim
Hochschule:	Universität Mannheim
Gutachter:	Gesang, Bernward
Datum der mündl. Prüfung:	25 Januar 2022
Sprache der Veröffentlichung:	Englisch
Einrichtung:	Philosophische Fakultät > Philosophie II (Gesang 2009-)
Fachgebiet:	100 Philosophie
Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch):	ethics , animal ethics , wild animal suffering , duties of assistance , intervention in nature , laissez-faire intuition , ethics of predation
Abstract:	In this thesis I aim to achieve two objectives. The first is to show that we are required to intervene in nature to assist suffering wild animals. The second is to offer some morally permissible ways of carrying out such intervention. After presenting an extensive critical analysis of the laissez-faire view, according to which we have no general obligation to assist wild animals, I challenge various arguments commonly put forward against intervention in nature and show that they fail to defend the non-interventionist view. Next, I propose general principles of a successful and morally permissible form of intervention in nature, which I collectively label as moral supervision on nature. Then I provide a critical assessment of various forms of intervention in nature that have been put forward in the relevant literature in order to determine whether they should be granted a moral approval. Most importantly, I address the notorious problem of predation. I show that all existing responses to the predation problem are inadequate and misguided. Then I present what I believe to be the most adequate approach to that problem.