Towards an Existential Ethic of Life: The Other, Freedom, and Intersubjectivity

In ethical questions why do we withhold automatic membership in the moral community from non-human forms of life? If a being is involved in the questions being posed, it should begin on the same ground as the others involved in the situation.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Applied Philosophy and Ethics

Grantor

Texas State University-San Marcos

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Hickey, Theresa K.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Hanks, Craig

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• McKinney, Audrey
• Luizzi, Vincent L.

• existentialism
• intersubjectivity
• animal ethics
• Beauvoir, Simone de

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10877/2425

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digital.library.txst.edu:10877/2425