题名

From Crisis to Peace: Rhetoric of Non-violence in WesternVeganism and Its ContemporaryRelevance

并列篇名

危機中的和平曙光：探討西方全素主義非暴力修辭的詩代意義

DOI

10.29650/TCUJHSS.201112.0005

作者

江智恩(Chi-En Chiang)

关键词

全素主義 ； 非暴力 ； 精神危機 ； 修辭 ； 和平運動 ； 典範轉移 ； Veganism ； Non-violence ； Spiritual Crisis ； Rhetoric ； Peace Movement ； Paradigm Shift

期刊名称

慈濟大學人文社會科學學刊

卷期/出版年月

12期（2011 / 12 / 01）

页次

125 - 147

内容语文

英文
中文摘要

素食主義（Vegetarianism）在西方已存悠遠的歷史，早從西元前六世紀的希臘哲學家畢達哥拉斯開始，棄絕肉食的素食主義一直是綿延於西方世界的一股隱流；但是相對來說，全素主義（Veganism）卻是較為晚近的概念。此一新詞直到1944年，才由英國全素協會的創辦人Donald Watson首次提出，而後收錄於第二版的牛津英語辭典。全素主義草創之初，其理想不僅僅只為終結人類對動物的奴役與剝削，而更在強調在日用及飲食上實踐非暴力思想，建立人類與動物共存共榮的世界，並為世界和平提供必要之條件。時值此一充滿危機與災難的21世紀，本文首先探討當代人類文明對動物的大規模暴力行為，及其衍生的環境破壞，並論及人與其他眾生疏離的內在精神危機。其次本文探究全素主義所強調的非暴力修辭論述，及其迫切的時代意義。
英文摘要

Vegetarianism has enjoyed a long history in the West. As early as the 6th century B.C., Pythagoras, one of its notable proponents in Classical Greece, first offered an intellectual argument for abstinence from meat. Vegetarianism, albeit never widely practiced, has been an undercurrent throughout the Western history. In comparison with Vegetarianism, the idea of Veganism came rather late. The word ”vegan” was first coined by Donald Watson, the founder of the British Vegan Society, in 1944, and later included in the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition. From its inception, Veganism aimed not only to abolish human's exploitation on animals, but to establish a world where humans and other animals can co-exist and flourish, and to create an optimum condition for a possible world peace. In the beginning of the 21st century, where crises and disasters threat our own existence, the idea of Veganism carries significant importance to our age. This paper first discussed the massive violence human beings inflicted upon animals, and the inevitable environmental destructions it entailed. Next, the paper argued that the source of current crises may lie in human's alienation and estrangement from other sentient beings. Then, the discussion went further to explore the idea of non-violence inherent in Vegan rhetoric, and its contemporary relevance for peace.
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