장동익 교수는 피터 싱어의 동물 해방론을 성공적으로 비판했는가?

Abstract

This paper follows Professor Chang Dongik’s critique of Singer in “Critiquing Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation: An Advocating Speciesism” and tries to point out the problems with his critique. In section 2, we points out that his use of the terms “species egalitarianism” and “speciesism advocacy” are unfamiliar and imprecise. Chang’s main criticism of Singer is that instead of identifying the properties that confer moral status and then proving that animals have them, Singer works backwards, finding similarities between humans and animals and claiming that these are the properties that confer moral status. Section 3 shows that this criticism misunderstands Singer. Section 4 argues that Chang fails to adequately respond to the marginal human argument. Section 5 criticizes Chang’s claim that humans are morally superior to animals as lacking in evidence. Finally, section 6 shows that Chang’s criticism of vegetarianism as hypocrisy also stems from a misunderstanding.