How Should We Treat Animals? A Confucian Reflection
How Should We Treat Animals? A Confucian Reflection
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DOI：
10.1007/s11712-009-9144-7
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发表时间：
2010-03-01
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0.4
通讯作者：
Fan Ruiping
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Fan Ruiping
与现代动物权利学者提出的观点相反，本文通过对儒家经典文献的简要分析，重建了儒家关于儒家仪式使用动物的道德辩护的论点。这个论点是通过关注儒家传统中动物的祭祀问题而发展起来的。虽然动物是按照一定的规定和限制来对待的，但它们也不能幸免于被用作祭品。儒家美德的一个重要组成部分是“敬”，它要求对天、神、灵和人表示深深的尊重，但对动物则不然。如果儒家改变仪式的方式，以节省动物，他们将无法表现出对神，精神和人类的崇敬，他们应该的深度。
Contrary to the views proposed by modern animal rights scholars, this essay reconstructs the Confucian argument for the moral defensibility of the Confucian ritual use of animals by providing an expository analysis of classical Confucian literature. The argument is developed by focusing on the issue of the sacrificial use of animals in the Confucian tradition. While animals are treated according to certain regulations and restrictions, they are not spared from being offered as sacrifices. An essential component of Confucian virtues, reverence, requires showing deep respect to Heaven, gods, spirits, and humans but not to animals. If Confucians change the rituals in ways that spare animals, they would fail to show the depth of reverence to gods, spirits, and humans that they should.