Abstract / DOI
Dangerously Poetic. On the Theological Dimension of Animal Subjectivity. This paper explores how theological approaches to animal ethics are perceived within secular animal ethics. The aim is to identify a rough reception profile of theological animal ethics in order to clearly outline the value of theological language for interdisciplinary concerns in animal ethics. To this end, the paper proposes the thesis that the articulation of subjectivity is one of the essential features of theological language and can be considered valuable in animal ethics. At the same time, the paper shows that this value is not considered at all in many contemporary approaches to theological animal ethics. Theological animal ethics, in other words, do not in any way play out the intrinsic value that secular ethics assigns to them, but rather try to imitate foreign professional logics such as those of ecology.