English Dictionary

speciesism

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈspiːʃiːˌzɪzəm/

名詞

不可算名詞

(philosophy, ethics) An ethical stance that assigns different worth or rights to beings on the basis of their species membership, such as assigning greater rights to human beings than to other animals.

日本語の意味

種差別主義：生物の種に基づいて、異なる価値や権利を認める倫理的立場。特に、人間により高い権利や価値を与え、他の動物と区別する考え方を指す。

Many philosophers argue that speciesism, which assigns different moral worth to beings based solely on their species membership, is unjustifiable.

多くの哲学者は、種の所属だけに基づいて存在の道徳的価値を差別する種差別は正当化できないと主張している。

意味（1）

(philosophy, ethics) An ethical stance that assigns different worth or rights to beings on the basis of their species membership, such as assigning greater rights to human beings than to other animals.

Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote (most of them are destined to be spontaneously aborted anyway) can arouse more moral solicitude and righteous indignation than the vivisection of any number of intelligent adult chimpanzees