PHIL 1550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Speciesism, Animal Cognition, Sentience
19 Apr 2016
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The equality of consideration that we extend to all humans as a moral ideal should be extended to other. Sentience is the only defensible boundary of concern for the interests of others (175) Liberation movement demands an expansion of our moral horizons and an extension of the moral. Requires that we consider how our own attitudes and practices have worked to benefit one group. Singer argues that the case for animal rights is built from the best case that supports our opposition to. The best arguments do not appeal on some factual state of equality, as humans have unequal capacities. However, this inequality does not naturally justify social inequality. The main reason to defend equality as a moral ideal is: and attributes among (for example) races: we can have no absolute guarantee that abilities and capacities really are distributed equally.
