Open-access Properties and relations: a post-anthropocentric reading1

Propiedades y relaciones: una lectura post-antropocéntrica

Propriedades e relações: uma leitura pós-antropocêntrica

Abstract

This article explores the philosophical postulates that are generating a whole series of transformations at the ethical, legal and political levels. In order to trace back the philosophical conditions of possibility of such change, it will study the scope of the theory of relations and the theory of properties. After its exhaustive analysis, it concludes that the theory of relations has a greater explanatory and operational scope than the theory of properties. After exploring the moral justification of sensocentrist and biocentrist arguments, it invites to the cultivation of non-destructive relations with any entity, strengthening a relational ontology as a way out of the current ecological crisis.

Keywords: Animal ethics; Environmental ethics; Anthropocentrism; Non-humans

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