Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes Simone Ghelli, author of The Suffering Animal: Life Between Weakness and Power, to explore the concept of the animal in consciousness.
Are we becoming more aware of our existence as humans and can we start to be better people in the way in which we treat animals in this world?
The philosophical exploration of the non-human and human worlds is something that has not been spoken in the past. What are the similarities and differences within the animal kingdom, such as consciousness, reality, rational living, superiority, control, and survival.
There are two paradigms within one existence and that is called the animal kingdom. When we are asking ‘How do we know when an animal is suffering’, does consciousness also exist in the animals and we perhaps do not know the communication language that all are speaking. What we see is the human using the common ground of a human consciousness to evaluate, control, direct, and command the life cycle survival of a non-human.
Have we created a construct of the human for superiority? Do we regulate the animal kingdom with the fears of survival, death, and mortality? Can you come to the concept that we are more than human story, and open to the eternal energy of all that brings us to the point of non-human and human are one?
What truly is important in our existence; our presence and our intuitive sense that allows our life story to unfold?
More info: The Suffering Animal is part of the Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series, totaling more than forty volumes in the series, which is co-edited by Professor Andrew Linzey and Dr Clair Linzey, from the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics is an independent Centre devoted to pioneering ethical perspectives on animals through research, teaching, and publication. For full information see www.oxfordanimalethics.com.
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