The Ethical Status of Animals in Perspective of Moderate Postmodern Paradigm: An Analytic, Appreciative and Applicative Study
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The objective of this research article was to study whether animals in perspective of moderate postmodern paradigm have ethical status and how by philosophical approach, dialectic and discursive qualitative methodologies. The research found out that reasons of antagonists that were previous responses in academic society presenting that animals have no ethical status, animals with ethical statustreated as inferior beings, and animals have an ethical equality status by grouping them with discrimination based upon species membership of ‘Speciesism’ to examine if it was appropriate to be the answers of research questions, which were 1) a group with the perspective that animals have no ethical status of their own, or if they have an ethical status inferior to that of humans standpoint and 2) a group of people with animals have equal ethical status to humans standpoint. In criticism of the antagonist’ s reason, both groups were unable to answer choices for this research question
because philosophical assumptions were not consistent with philosophical concepts of
moderate postmodern paradigm. According to the study, the researchers proposed the new reason that those were primarily related to interspecies equality. This study, therefore, suggested that interspecies equity was a principle of thought. Eventually, the new proposition from the researchers is animals have an ethical equity status, the same as all living creatures. The results can be applied for an alternative ethical principle in harmonythat all humankind can and will be given in the primary concept of humane treatment to animals.
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