Grief over the death of a non-human animal
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An adult person’s grief over the death of a non-human animal tends to be perceived by those around him as ridiculous, frivolous or pathological. What typically underlies these disapproving attitudes are beliefs about the limited faculties of non-human animals and/or the supposed requirements for a flourishing human life. I will consider various arguments against such beliefs and I hope that neutralizes some of the objections that could be made to the following thesis which I seek to defend: Grief over a non-human animal can be adequately understood in terms of the frustration of categorical desires that lose their meaning after its death. To support this thesis, I will argue that the notions of a flourishing life and practical identity are constitutive of that of categorical desire as well as that of grief.
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