Primaten – Ihr moralischer Status [Primates. Their moral status]

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Primaten – Ihr moralischer Status [Primates. Their moral status]

Contributions to Ethics and Biotechnology, Volume 8 (2011) - in German

The legal and moral status of primates has considerably improved in recent years. What is the reason for this new assessment? What contribution is made by the ethical arguments on which it is based? Is it their similarity to people which makes primates so special in the animal world? Or should we no longer treat them as animals from an ethical point of view, but as people? The study’s arguments are based on the unique skills and characteristics which make primates so special. According to the study, this justifies their moral status and dignity, which must prove its worth in view of the new possibilities of technical interventions.

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Last edition: 20.05.2021

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Prof. Peter Kunzmann is Professor of Philosophy and research scientist in science ethics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. His work focuses on animal and nature ethics in the field of applied ethics and he is active in the ‘Dignity in Gene Technology’ research group. He is a member of the ‘Science and Values’ commission at the Sachsen Academy of Sciences and of the ‘Dignity of Animals’ working group at the Swiss Federal Veterinary Office (FVO).

Prof. Nikolaus Knoepffler is Professor of Applied Ethics at the University of Jena and head of the university’s Ethics Centre. He is a member of the German federal government’s Central Ethics Commission for Stem Cell Research and of the Bavarian state government’s Bioethics Commission. He is also Vice President of the German Academy for Transplant Medicine.