TAMING THE ‘KINGDOM’: What shall we do with our vainglorious aspirations?
TAMING THE ‘KINGDOM’: What shall we do with our vainglorious aspirations?
LEE HALL: The first human beings on Earth were bad ancestors. Our longing for redemption from the biblical Fall percolates through many generations of writings and arts. There’s Edward Hicks’s famous Peaceable Kingdom, with its echoes of Isaiah 11:6. The painting is contested artistic territory, because of the people in the background. “Hicks idealized the encounter between British colonists and Indigenous people,” says the Brooklyn Museum, “creating fictions of harmony.” The Isaiah story itself is riddled with idealized fictions of harmony. Lions and wolves lie down beside goats and lambs, evidently starving to live up to the “peaceable” ideal. Or […]
Animalism: A nascent ideology? Exploring the ideas of animal advocacy political parties
Animalism: A nascent ideology? Exploring the ideas of animal advocacy political parties
PAUL LUCARDLE: In recent years political parties advocating animal rights and animal interests have sprang up in several countries and seem to constitute a new party family. At first sight, they appear to be single-issue parties, but a closer look at their party programmes suggests that they are developing a new ideology based on the core concept of compassion and adjacent concepts of equality, intrinsic value and interdependence… In philosophy, the term animalism denotes the view that human beings should be regarded as animals. This view seems to be shared generally by animal advocacy parties, so why not refer to […]
MIGHT MAKES ‘RIGHT’: Why do right-wing adherents engage in more animal exploitation and meat consumption?
MIGHT MAKES ‘RIGHT’: Why do right-wing adherents engage in more animal exploitation and meat consumption?
KRISTOF DHONT: Despite the well-documented implications of individual differences in ideology with regard to reactions toward human out-groups, surprisingly little is understood about the implications for non-human animals. As Walker’s poignant observation clarifies, many biases, including those involving non-human animals, are rooted in common ideological belief systems and show psychological parallels Few studies have investigated relations between social-ideological orientations and exploitative attitudes and behaviors toward animals. Yet existing evidence reveals positive associations between right-wing ideologies such as RWA and SDO, on the one hand, and attitudes toward the exploitation of animals as objects for human benefit (e.g., animal testing, fur […]
