Animalization of language, therefore death of a man

Tomasz Turowski

doi:10.2478/ebce-2019-0009

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Animalization of language, therefore death of a man

Ethics & Bioethics

Volume 9 (2019): Issue 1-2 (June 2019)

By: Tomasz Turowski

Open Access

|Jun 2019

Abstract

In the article, I try to emphasize that our way of using language affects moral decisions and attitudes. As we think as we speak and simultaneously, we act. By using chauvinistic language, first of all, we simplify our reality; secondly, we push those beings that we define in the language to the margins. I think that our language is homocentric and therefore leads us to speciesism.

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