Kant's philosophy - Animal ethics: Why animals are items without rights & still mustn't be abused

Kant's position towards animals is often attacked but usually completely misunderstood. According to him we don't have duties towards animals but still duties in regards to animals. From the standpoint of right they are items, meaning they can be possessed and and used and have no rights just as they have no duties. Still we ought to treat them with care. Not for their but for our own sake: Because it would not befit our own human dignity to not behave like rational beings and not act in a purposeful manner. Kant's moral philosophy therefore is one that not only forbids treating animals disregardingly but even to treat lifeless objects disregardingly.Quote: 0:08Kant's position towards animals: 1:55The nature of animals: 10:41- The faculty of cognition of animals: 21:51- The feelings of animals: 45:17- The faculty of desiring of animals: 1:03:50- The souls of animals and their life after death: 1:13:09The criticism of Kant's position: 1:16:37Animals are items without rights: 1:34:54Kant rejects animal abuse: 1:54:19Kant is not anthropocentric but ratiocentric: 2:06:36We mustn't abuse animals because otherwise we become numb: 2:21:11We mustn't abuse animals out of reverence for ourselves: 2:26:39Reverence for ourselves indeed is the reason people treat animals regardingly, even if they aren't aware of it: 2:36:35Why people really reject Kant's moral philosophy in regards to animals: 2:52:52A person ought to not be possessed by the spirit of destruction: 3:00:01The duties in regards to animals are wide duties and left to our own discretion: 3:24:33Everything ought to be a matter of conscience to us: 3:32:57Thanks: 3:38:38Overview over the faculties of the mind according to Kant: https://jonathanivoloewer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/faculties-of-the-mind-and-critiques-according-to-Kant.jpgOveriew of sensuality according to Kant: https://jonathanivoloewer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sensuality-according-to-Kant.jpgThe moral relationship with animals and how we should treat them is a topic in the Metaphysics of Morals: https://debatewikiarchive.github.io/circuitdebater/file/view/%5BImmanuel_Kant%5D_Kant_The_Metaphysics_of_Morals.pdf/507955836/%5BImmanuel_Kant%5D_Kant_The_Metaphysics_of_Morals.pdf as well as in the lectures on moral philosophy: https://www.archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes271imma | https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes272imma | https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes0027kant_s1s1/mode/2up (I am not aware of any free English translation).Whoever is interested in Kant's own relationship with animals should read the descriptions of his life by his acquaintances, especially Ehregott Andreas Christoph Wasianski's Immanuel Kant in his final years of life: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10064190?page=1 (I am not aware of any free English translation).The nature of animals in distinction from human nature Kant addresses in various places of his lectures on metaphysics: https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes0028kant/mode/2up | https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes0028kant_d7g2/mode/2up as well as his lectures on anthropology: https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes0000kant_a3n3 | https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes0000kant_j8c0 (I am not aware of any free English translation).Whoever wants to support my aufkläring work can do so via:https://ko-fi.com/jonathanivoloewerhttps://www.patreon.com/jonathanivoloewerhttps://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=VDDT7T7XHR77UThumbnail: www.hotpot.ai