The Animal: Object or Other-Subject?

The meeting “The Animal: Object or Other-Subject?” was held with the presence of Ardeshir Mansouri and Behnam Khodapanah at the House of Humanities Thinkers. You can download the audio of this meeting below.

Ardeshir Mansouri: Ethical Considerations on the Tradition of Animal Sacrifice

Is sacrifice a religious obligation? Or can it be shown that sacrifice is a ritual that entered religions from pre-religious periods and is not inherently a religious matter? Is sacrifice a mandatory act of worship based on inherently Quranic teachings, or, according to the verses of the Quran, is sacrifice merely a permissible act and not obligatory, and what is obligatory are the rites that one must perform if they choose to sacrifice? What picture of sacrifice does the trajectory of its status from the Old Testament to the Quran provide us? If our moral intuition decrees the cessation of sacrifice, can a reading of the Quran be derived that permits the cessation of the tradition of animal sacrifice?

Behnam Khodapanah: The Moral Object and Personhood in Peter Singer’s Utilitarian Ethics The topics discussed in this talk included: In Singer’s utilitarian system, what is the criterion for considering a being as a moral object or patient? In other words, what is the criterion for placing a being within the sphere of moral consideration? In the next stage, I addressed the question of what “personhood” fundamentally means and what the relationship is between being a moral object and “personhood.” Is every being that is a moral object considered a person? What are the advantages of “personhood” according to Singer, and what is the connection between “personhood” and the “problem of killing”?

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Audio of the Meeting The Animal: Object or Other-Subject? (Complete)

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The Animal: Object or Other-Subject?

House of Humanities Thinkers

Sunday, May 27, 2018

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