DESCARTES'A GÖRE HAYVANLARDA ACI HİSSİ

Year 2013, Issue: 15, 201 - 210, 01.05.2013

Emre Arda Erdenk

Abstract

Rene Descartes’in, ahlak felsefesi alanındaki birçok felsefeci tarafından hayvanların acı hissetmediğini ve dolayısıyla da öldürülebilir, yenilebilir ve üzerlerinde deney yapılabilir olduğunu iddia ettiği görüşü kabul edilmektedir. Bu makalede Descartes’in bu iddia ile ilgili argümanlarını değerlendirip, ortaya konulan görüşün aksine bu argümanlarla Descartes’in hayvanların acı hissetmediği sonucuna ulaşmadığını ortaya koyacağım. Bu amaçla, bu makale ‘doğal otomaton’, ‘dil argümanı’ ve duyumlarla ilgili zihin-beden problemi sorunlarıyla ilgilenecektir. Sonuç olarak, Descartes’e göre hayvanların duyumları olduğunu ve acı çekebildiklerini iddia edeceğim.

Keywords

Descartes, hayvan hakları, otomaton, zihin-beden, ikicilik

DESCARTES’ ACCOUNT OF FEELING OF PAIN IN ANIMALS

Abstract

Rene Descartes is considered by many philosophers of ethics as the main figure of the view that animals do not feel pain, so we can inflict pain to them by killing, eating and experimenting. However, in this paper, I will give an interpretation of Descartes’ arguments concerning this issue and will conclude that on the contrary to the orthodox view, he gives credit to the idea that animals do feel pain. By means of this, this paper is going to deal with the issue of natural automaton, ‘language argument’ and the mind-body issue concerning sensations. Ultimately, I will show that, according to Descartes animals have sensations and they feel pain.

Keywords

Descartes, animal rights, automaton, mind-body, dualism

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