Animals and Moral Status
The Agency Account of Moral Status: Defending the Equal Moral Status of Humans and Non-Human Animals
... of animals is underplayed and undervalued by moral ...recognising animals as agents, the Agency Account offers opposition to the intuition that there is a deep divide between humans and ...and ...
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Animal rights and moral vegetarianism - The moral status of nonhuman animals through a social contract approach
... that animals are killed in order to produce meat cannot be ...that animals can experience a wide variety of feelings, such as pleasure, happiness, pain, fear, anxiety, grief, ...prove animals possess ...
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An exploration of Peter Singer and Richard Posner's ethical arguments regarding the moral status of animals, with a specific focus on the use of animals for the consumption of food
... the moral status of ...“all animals are equal” 10 and belong on an equal footing; this has been referred to as the ‘principle of equal consideration of ...
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WELFARE AS A CRITERION FOR MORAL STATUS In our society there is nowadays a broad consensus that the fate of animals – at least of certain categories of animals – should not completely depend
... REGARDING ANIMALS I argued that moral intuitions about preserving the naturalness of animals cannot be justified within an ethical theory that assumes that only welfare concerns are valid ...
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The Moral Lives of Animals
... on animals and morals focuses on the moral status of ...our moral calculations and if so how? To what extent does the moral status of animals suggest or dictate human ...
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Moral Status and Consciousness
... that moral status is grounded in the possession of certain sophisticated cognitive abilities, such as the capacity for setting ends via practical reasoning or for engaging in practices of mutual ...
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On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
... isolated moral issue; to fully understand the moral status of abortion we may have to reconsider other moral issues as well, issues not just about infanticide and euthanasia, but also about ...
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Moral Status, Moral Value, and Human Embryos: Implications for Stem Cell Research
... limits moral status to beings with interests, and I have argued that only sentient beings have ...have moral value. A being has moral value if there are moral reasons to treat it in ...
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The moral status of babies and our obligations to them
... one. Animals, however, mostly do ...our moral reasoning. Kant, of course, famously, thought that treating animals cruelly was only of moral import insofar as it may cultivate cruelty in the ...
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What Matters for Moral Status: Behavioral or Cognitive Equivalence?
... a moral patient?” – argues that we should recognize robots and artificial intelligence (AI) as psychological moral patients if they are cognitively equivalent to other beings that we already recognize as ...
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The Moral Status and Welfare of Patients Diagnosed as Vegetative With Covert Awareness
... like animals, outside the boundaries of moral concern; they cannot have moral status, because they lack the rational capacities necessary to form agreements of mutual advantage with rational ...
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Human rights for monkeys and pigs: Why selves deserve a moral status
... Besides being one of the founding fathers of utilitarianism, Bentham was also one of the few thinkers of his time to recognize that a principle of equal consideration should also apply to some nonhuman animals. ...
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On Empathy and Alterity: How Sex Robots Encourage Us to Reconfigure Moral Status
... only moral status? This type of problem is classified as “speciesism” (Singer, 2004) or “moral ...of moral status. As moral status has historically been subject to social ...
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Moral and Legal Status of Animals: Why Animals Should Have Legal Rights
... property status encourages and facilitates animal ...where animals were always treated humanely while the second problem is that we do not live in such an ideal world and the property status is ...
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A Secular Examination of the Moral Difference between Humans and Animals
... a status equivalent to our own and higher than that of the members of other ...The status conferring property which her kind has, though she as an individual lacks it, still dictates the moral ...
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Animals at war: the status of "animal soldiers" under international humanitarian law
... not animals truly have the ca- pacity to be legitimate addressees of moral obligations has been the subject of fierce debate for some time (see, ...to animals at war, considers their participation in ...
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Animals, moral risk and moral considerability
... Tanner, Julia K. H. (2007) Animals, moral risk and moral considerability, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2477/ Use policy The ...
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Do Animals Have Moral Standing?
... Eventually, the controversy subsided, to be renewed 100 years later. The modern animal-rights movement began almost exactly 100 years after Darwin’s letter. People take extreme positions. Some believe that we simply ...
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Nonhuman Animals in Adam Smith’s Moral Theory
... of Moral Sentiments can be regarded as one of the ‘enlightened’ moral theories of the Enlightenment, insofar as it widened the scope of moral consideration beyond the traditionally restricted ...
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Innocent Threats and the Moral Problem of Carnivorous Animals
... the moral rights of any moral agent, or of any moral patient for that ...a moral duty to do ...a moral limit to how much discretion we have in deciding whom we should help and how we ...
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