Why the Concept of Moral Status Should be Abandoned
The use of the concept of moral status is commonplace today in debates about the moral consideration of entities lacking certain special capacities, such as nonhuman animals. This concept has been typically used to defend the view that adult human beings have a status higher than all those entities....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
[2017]
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2017, Volume: 20, Issue: 4, Pages: 899-910 |
| RelBib Classification: | NBE Anthropology NCA Ethics VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Moral Status
B Equal consideration B Full moral status B Moral Consideration |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |