Ética para matador. Savater, los toros y la ética.

Abstract

In this paper I analyze the main arguments of Fernando Savater’s Tauroética. He claims that there are moral arguments in favor of bullfighting, and that to support it is a legitimate ethical option. Here I hold that he is wrong and that his moral arguments do not have the force he thinks they have—there may be economic, political or other kind of reasons in favor of bullfighting, but there are no moral reasons. I argue instead that there are strong moral reasons against bullfighting because bulls are objects of moral consideration, i.e. they have a moral status independent of our interests. From this premise—always from an ethical perspective—I analyze and object to his other arguments.