This chapter provides a concluding outlook on how human approaches to constructing non-human animals—such as classification and description—shape our behaviour towards them. It briefly discusses the social construction of animals through classifications in encyclopaedias and then shifts to Literary animals. In conclusion, the current state of Japanese Animal Ethics is summarised, and a brief discussion will explore how incorporating ideas from premodern Japanese thinkers like Andō Shōeki could shed light on the historical human-animal relationship in Japan.

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Concluding Outlook: Animal Classification and Animal Ethics

  • Melissa Ann Kaul

摘要

This chapter provides a concluding outlook on how human approaches to constructing non-human animals—such as classification and description—shape our behaviour towards them. It briefly discusses the social construction of animals through classifications in encyclopaedias and then shifts to Literary animals. In conclusion, the current state of Japanese Animal Ethics is summarised, and a brief discussion will explore how incorporating ideas from premodern Japanese thinkers like Andō Shōeki could shed light on the historical human-animal relationship in Japan.