A Quick Note on the Potential Bataillean Justification for the Moral Disregard of Humans

04/22/2021

If we say that the moment in which we lose ourselves (the moment of sovereignty, inner experience, etc.) is the moment of the ethical par excellence then we can argue that it is actually animals that have moral consideration alone. We can argue this because animals have “continuous ontologies” whereas humans have “discontinuous ontologies” and therefore, animals are always within the moment of the ethical whereas human beings only enter into the ethical for a brief moment when they “return back to animality” in the dissolution of their individual subjectivities.