What Is Wrong with Eating Pets? Wittgensteinian Animal Ethics and Its Need for Empirical Data

Wittgensteinian approaches to animal ethics highlight the significance of practical concepts like ‘pet’, ‘patient’, or ‘companion’ in shaping our understanding of how we should treat non-human animals. For Wittgensteinian animal ethicists, moral principles alone cannot ground moral judgments about o...

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Main Authors: Erich Linder, Herwig Grimm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-08-01
Series:Animals
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/13/17/2747