Abstract

ORTIZ-MILLAN, Gustavo. Ética para matador: Savater, los toros y la ética. Tópicos (México) [online]. 2014, n.46, pp.205-236. ISSN 0188-6649.

In this paper I analyze the main arguments of Fernando Savater's Tauroética. He claims that there are moral arguments in favor of bullfighting, and that to support it is a legitimate ethical option. Here I hold that he is wrong and that his moral arguments do not have the force he thinks they have-there may be economic, political or other kind of reasons in favor of bullfighting, but there are no moral reasons. I argue instead that there are strong moral reasons against bullfighting because bulls are objects of moral consideration, i.e. they have a moral status independent of our interests. From this premise-always from an ethical perspective-I analyze and object to his other arguments.

Keywords : Fernando Savater; bullfighting; animal ethics; moral status of animals.

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