Abstract

YANEZ GONZALEZ, Gustavo. Animal bioethics as a response to dystopian cartesianism. Rev. Bioética y Derecho [online]. 2020, n.50, pp.425-438.  Epub Nov 23, 2020. ISSN 1886-5887.

The global health crisis that is the COVID-19 throws the thinking into uncomfortable places. In the present manuscript I suggest that post-pandemic philosophy, from now on, cannot and will not ignore the phenomenon of the living, specifically the living non-human animal. Precisely, as a result of the indifference of the animal question, philosophy has believed in the past the Cartesian thesis of the animal-machine. On the contrary, in this text we propose that such understanding of the animal is not archaic at all, and that, triggered by the pandemic context, could give rise to what can tentatively be called "dystopian Cartesianism". In front of this consummation, whose crystallization is the (total) machine becoming of the non-human animal, an animal bioethics could serve as a way to contravene the dystopian Cartesianism.

Keywords : animal; virus; cartesianism; pandemic; bioethics; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19.

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