Apr 23, 2024
Harvard philosophy professor’s book asks humans to rethink their relationships with animals.
– Professor Christine Korsgaard's book Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals is a departure from her previous theoretical work on moral philosophy, as it deals with more practical ethical questions.
Korsgaard, Ph.D. ’81, has taught at Harvard for almost 30 years and is an expert on moral philosophy.
Drawing on the work of Immanuel Kant and Aristotle, she argues that humans have a duty to value our fellow creatures not as tools, but as sentient beings capable of consciousness and able to have lives that are good or bad for them.
