Open AccessEl Otro No-Humano y el Coronavirus
Author(s) -
Fabián de la Parra Rodríguez,
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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
sincronía
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1562-384X
DOI - 10.32870/sincronia.axxv.n79.1b21
Subject(s) - humanity , harm , environmental ethics , torture , pandemic , plague (disease) , relation (database) , coronavirus , transcendence (philosophy) , covid-19 , sociology , philosophy , political science , law , epistemology , human rights , history , medicine , disease , archaeology , pathology , database , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The global Coronavirus pandemic originated out of a wet market in Wuhan, China. Thus, this virus is the product of the market conditions that lacked any sort of ethical considerations. Among the most ingrained dogmas in most human beings throughout history is the idea that mankind has non-human beings at their disposal to do with them whatever humanity’s will might dictate. The ethical relation is suspended during the interaction with animals and thus humans are allowed to torture, harm, imprison, and kill animals for scientific experiments, entertainment, or to satisfy hunger or a craving. Through the levinasian concept of transcendence, this article will propose Otherness as a category of Peter Singer’s utilitarian critique of factory farming. The current virus is proposed to be the result of a system that subsumes the non-human Other as matter to be manipulated and ignores any sort of ethical responsibility.