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| author | Biagi, Tommaso |
| author_facet | Biagi, Tommaso |
| contents | <p>This essay, <em>Animal Liberation After Aggregation: A Post-Singerian Defense of the Lexical Veto</em>, offers a critical structural revision of Peter Singer’s animal ethics. While acknowledging the historical significance of <em>Animal Liberation</em>, the author highlights a fundamental vulnerability in its aggregative approach: the theoretical possibility of sacrificing individuals for overall benefit. Introducing the concept of the <span><strong>Singer Limit</strong></span>, the paper argues that when suffering crosses the threshold of agency collapse (Smax), aggregation ceases to provide moral justification. By developing the notion of <span><strong>proto-agency</strong></span> and analyzing the systematic production of Smax in industrial animal farming, the work defends the <span><strong>Lexical Veto</strong></span> principle: no human benefit can justify the intentional infliction of extreme suffering on sentient beings. The essay establishes a post-Singerian framework that moves from aggregative reasoning to non-aggregative consequentialism, grounding abolitionist ethics in the structural recognition of individual separateness and moral addressability.</p> |
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| language | eng |
| publishDate | 2026 |
| publisher | Zenodo |
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| spellingShingle | ANIMAL LIBERATION AFTER AGGREGATION- A POST-SINGERIAN DEFENSE OF THE LEXICAL VETO. Biagi, Tommaso animal ethics, Peter Singer, utilitarianism, aggregation, Smax, proto-agency, factory farming, lexical veto, abolitionism, speciesism, non-aggregative consequentialism, post-Singerian ethics <p>This essay, <em>Animal Liberation After Aggregation: A Post-Singerian Defense of the Lexical Veto</em>, offers a critical structural revision of Peter Singer’s animal ethics. While acknowledging the historical significance of <em>Animal Liberation</em>, the author highlights a fundamental vulnerability in its aggregative approach: the theoretical possibility of sacrificing individuals for overall benefit. Introducing the concept of the <span><strong>Singer Limit</strong></span>, the paper argues that when suffering crosses the threshold of agency collapse (Smax), aggregation ceases to provide moral justification. By developing the notion of <span><strong>proto-agency</strong></span> and analyzing the systematic production of Smax in industrial animal farming, the work defends the <span><strong>Lexical Veto</strong></span> principle: no human benefit can justify the intentional infliction of extreme suffering on sentient beings. The essay establishes a post-Singerian framework that moves from aggregative reasoning to non-aggregative consequentialism, grounding abolitionist ethics in the structural recognition of individual separateness and moral addressability.</p> |
| title | ANIMAL LIBERATION AFTER AGGREGATION- A POST-SINGERIAN DEFENSE OF THE LEXICAL VETO. |
| topic | animal ethics, Peter Singer, utilitarianism, aggregation, Smax, proto-agency, factory farming, lexical veto, abolitionism, speciesism, non-aggregative consequentialism, post-Singerian ethics |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18732016 |