TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pepper, Angie
T1  - Beyond anthropocentrism: cosmopolitanism and nonhuman animals
T2  - Global justice : theory, practice, rhetoric
N2  - All cosmopolitan approaches to global distributive justice are premised on the idea that humans are the primary units of moral concern. In this paper, I argue that neither relational nor non-relational cosmopolitans can unquestioningly assume the moral primacy of humans. Furthermore, I argue that, by their own lights, cosmopolitans must extend the scope of justice to most, if not all, nonhuman animals. To demonstrate that cosmopolitans cannot simply ‘add nonhuman animals and stir,’ I examine the cosmopolitan position developed by Martha Nussbaum in Frontiers of Justice. I argue that while Nussbaum explicitly includes nonhuman animals within the scope of justice, her account is marked by an unjustifiable anthropocentric bias. I ultimately conclude that we must radically reconceptualise the primary unit of cosmopolitan moral concern to encompass most, if not all, sentient animals.
KW  - global justice
KW  - cosmopolitanism
KW  - nonhuman animals
KW  - sentience
KW  - relational and non-relational
KW  - capabilities approach
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/43228
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-432288
SN  - 1835-6842
VL  - 9
IS  - 2
SP  - 114
EP  - 133
PB  - The Global Justice Network
CY  - [S.l]
ER  -