Phenomenology and the non-human animal : at the limits of by Lotz, Christian; Painter, Corinne Michelle

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By Lotz, Christian; Painter, Corinne Michelle

The query of the relation among human and non-human animals in theoretical, moral and political regards has turn into a fashionable subject in the philosophical debates of the final twenty years. This quantity explores in monstrous methods how phenomenology can give a contribution to those debates. It deals particular insights into the outline and interpretation of the adventure of the non-human animal, the relation among phenomenology and anthropology, the relation among phenomenology and psychology, in addition to moral issues.

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136. , p. 147. Ibid. Ibid. , p. 148. , p. 150. , p. 163. , p. 162. , p. 195. , p. 163. Ibid. Ibid. , p. 164. Ibid. FCM, p. 165. Also, on p. 195, Heidegger discusses the lack of Mut (courage/ mood) of the animal. It seems to be, though, that both Dasein in its lack of oppressiveness, and animality in its lack of courage, have this lack of Mut to take up this most extreme demand (Zumutung). FCM, p. 165. , p. 166. , p. 128. , p. 166. , p. 68. , p. 195. , p. 278. Ibid. , p. 164. M. Rilke, Last Note, December 1926) A volume that uses the term “non-human animal” immediately draws our attention to the complexity that is at stake in any analysis of animal life.

In its being captivated (benommen), the animal is taken by (hingenommen) and absorbed in (eingenommen) its drives. Dissimilarly, although Dasein also becomes captivated in the everyday, Dasein is still not merely taken by beings, but acts upon them. This suggests that Dasein always keeps a distance and that in its becoming absorbed in its occupation with the beings that surround him, Dasein can also free itself from its captivation, by being banned from the everyday. , its very essence. To experience oneself in one’s possibilities through a complete loss of the concrete possibilities that surround one in the everyday, is something that is inaccessible to the animal.

FCM , p. 228. , p. 236. , p. 238. , p. 239. , p. 241. , p. 242. Ibid. Ibid. This experiment makes one wonder what would happen to a human being if it could take in an infinite amount of food. Does a human being stop eating before it has a feeling of fullness? Some treatments of obesity, such as gastric stapling, attempt to instill a feeling of fullness by reducing the size of the stomach. In other words, the drive to eat is (it turns out) reduced by a boundary that does not come from any apprehension, but from a feeling that is perhaps similar to the feeling of the fullness of the bee.

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