Although the concept of objectification is seen as a valuable tool in feminist theorizing, far less attention has been paid to animalization: treating or regarding a person as a nonhuman animal. I argue that animalization is a distinctive category of wrongdoing, modeling a theory of the phenomenon on Kantian theories of objectification in feminist philosophy. Actions are animalizing, I claim, when they embody a kind of disregard for a person's characteristically human capacities that are analogous to the fitting treatment of animals. I contend that my view overcomes standard objections to the use of the concept of animalization and shows how, despite surface similarities, animalization is different from both objectification and infantilization.

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 动物化


尽管客观化的概念被视为女权主义理论中的一个有价值的工具，但对动物化的关注却少之又少：将人视为非人类动物。我认为动物化是一种独特的不当行为，我以康德女权主义哲学中的客观化理论为模型建立了这一现象的理论。我认为，当某些行为体现出一种对一个人特有的人类能力的漠视时，这种行为就是动物化的，这类似于对动物的适当对待。我认为我的观点克服了对使用动物化概念的标准反对意见，并表明尽管表面上相似，但动物化与客观化和婴儿化是不同的。