Vulnerability, Transcendence, and the Body: Exploring the Human/Nonhuman Animal Divide within Jainism

IF 0.6 4区农林科学 Q4 SOCIOLOGY

Society & Animals Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.1163/15685306-12341520

Anne Vallely

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Jainism’s renowned compassion toward nonhuman animals is derived from the vulnerability and finitude we share with them. The tradition recognizes the impetus to avoid suffering and preserve life as basic to all living beings and emphasizes our shared existential condition. Nevertheless, Jainism treats the condition of being human as privileged because of its capacity for radical bodily detachment. This article, based on long-term ethnographic work among Jain communities in India, brings Jainism’s traditional understandings of the human/nonhuman distinction into discussion with contemporary philosophical and anthropological reflections on the category of the “animal.”

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脆弱、超越和身体:探索耆那教中人类/非人类动物的分裂

耆那教对非人类动物的著名同情源于我们与它们共享的脆弱性和有限性。传统认识到避免痛苦和保护生命的动力是所有生命的基础，并强调我们共同的生存条件。然而，耆那教将人的条件视为特权，因为它具有彻底的身体超然的能力。本文基于印度耆那教社区的长期民族志工作，将耆那教对人类/非人类区别的传统理解与当代哲学和人类学对“动物”类别的反思进行了讨论

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Society & Animals 社会科学-兽医学

CiteScore

1.40

自引率

12.50%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Society & Animals publishes studies that describe and analyze our experiences of non-human animals from the perspective of various disciplines within both the Social Sciences (e.g., psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science) and the Humanities (e.g., history, literary criticism). The journal specifically deals with subjects such as human-animal interactions in various settings (animal cruelty, the therapeutic uses of animals), the applied uses of animals (research, education, medicine and agriculture), the use of animals in popular culture (e.g. dog-fighting, circus, animal companion, animal research), attitudes toward animals as affected by different socializing agencies and strategies, representations of animals in literature, the history of the domestication of animals, the politics of animal welfare, and the constitution of the animal rights movement.