Pursuing an understanding of animal consciousness: Implications for animal morality and a creaturely theology

The importance of animals in the evolutionary history of homo sapiens comes to the fore in light of an increasingly trans-human techno-scientific environment. New research on consciousness, and animal consciousness in particular, has prompted questions relating to animal rights, animal morality and...

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Subtitles:Ecodomy
Main Author: Du Toit, Cornel W. 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Univ. [2015]
In: Verbum et ecclesia
Year: 2015, Volume: 36, Issue: 3, Pages: 1-10
IxTheo Classification:CF Christianity and Science
NBD Doctrine of Creation
NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics
Further subjects:B creaturely theology
B Animal consciousness
B Cambridge declaration of animal consciousness
B Animal Communication
B animal morality
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Summary:The importance of animals in the evolutionary history of homo sapiens comes to the fore in light of an increasingly trans-human techno-scientific environment. New research on consciousness, and animal consciousness in particular, has prompted questions relating to animal rights, animal morality and the emergence of a creaturely theology and theological primatology. The possibility of understanding nonhuman animals is investigated with reference to notions like consciousness, thinking, awareness, language and communication, including the importance of emotion in communication. Special attention is given to the nature of animal communication as it came to the fore in bonobo and other chimpanzee research. Building on the notion of awareness and communication, the article focuses on the notion of animal morality and comments on some aspects of a creaturely theology.
ISSN:2074-7705
Contains:Enthalten in: Verbum et ecclesia
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.4102/ve.v36i3.1442