ESPECISMO: A CEGUEIRA MORAL DA SOCIEDADE

https://doi.org/10.29327/211653.6.4-1

Abstract

The time we live in is marked by thinking and acting in the Western vision, loaded with concepts already established throughout history. If we analyze critically some attitudes and actions that we propagate without thinking, in relation to the species itself and the nonhuman animals we perceive the emblematic dominant anthropocentric paradigm. This is where we must rethink our actions and reflect on unacceptable behavior towards nonhuman animals, rebuild and reshape habits that seemingly innocent, cause great suffering, immorality and disrespect. The text seeks these and other questions about the relationship between human and nonhuman animals, relating to authors who seek other ways of thinking, such as Peter Singer (2004), Sônia Felipe (2007), Saramago (1995), Paulo Freire (2005) and among others that seek the harmony between living beings. Emphasizing that we need to humanize ourselves again with nature, with animals, with the systemic world in which we live, we must have courage and perceive our "dehumanization" before the exploitation of nonhuman animals, to be aware of a demeaning behavior, that moralize us before the nature and especially to the non-human animals.