Speciesisum Flashcards
1
Q
What are the levels of moral status and consideration?
A
0 - non-human animals have no moral status
1 - some moral status
2 - equal consideration sense
3 - utility-trumping sense
2
Q
What is the dualist veiw?
A
- humans being seperate to other animals
- assumes unique human attributes
- position often associated with aristotal
- genesis account seen as dualist
3
Q
What is the monoist veiw?
A
- see all species a continuum of the same thing
- all have some moral status
-speciesisum - treating other organisums differently because they are not human
4
Q
What are the justifications for specisesisum?
A
- species justification
- tool use justificantion
- language justification
-theory of mine justification - contact justification
-moral agency justification
5
Q
What is sentience?
A
the capacity to have feelings
6
Q
What was kants views on non-human animals?
A
Animals are insentient. we have no direct duty to not brutalise ourselves creating an indirect duty not to brutalise animals
7
Q
What were peter singers ideas?
A
animals (sentient) have the right to be counted in the utilitarian calculus
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